I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am we have decided to get a fence installed. It’s going to be really hard for the next 3 weeks waiting for the crew to show up, but I know it will totally be worth it in the end.
And, I’ll also have time to figure out where I’ll plant everything once the walls go up. 😉
I seriously think I would have fallen into a deep depression this summer if I wasn’t able to hang out in my backyard with Lucy the puggle princess {in private} and garden the way I wanted too. I need walls. And even though they can only be 5 feet tall here, I can live with that. I only wish we would have thought to do it sooner. Oh well. Live and learn I guess, right?
I’ve been thinking about purchasing two espalier fruit trees. One apple, and one pear. I planted them at our last property and they grew beautifully alongside the house. This time though I think I’ll plant them about a foot or so behind the fence so I’ll be able to see them from my kitchen window.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been watching where the sun hits the property and the mid to late afternoon sun hits the side yard. Which is PERFECT if you ask me.
Originally I was planning on growing all my tomato plants in containers this year, but I may try and sneak a few into the garden boxes {which I hope to build pretty soon} and see how well they do. 
I planted some seed potatoes a few weeks ago just outside the patio door and they are beginning to pop through the soil. Â The HH isn’t much of a gardener, but he does love harvesting potatoes. So this year I planted quite a few.
The tulips are on their way out… What should I plant in my pots? Flowers? Herbs? 
Remember the patio set I snagged at a yard sale last weekend for $40? It cleaned up really well and we discovered it’s made out of teak wood.  Not to shabby for $40 if you ask me. 
Something unexpected is happening in our side garden… The right side is taking off and the left, well, the vegetables are taking their own sweet time. 
Strawberries, radish, cabbage, lettuce.
And last but not least, our sugar snap peas and lettuce containers, they are thriving.
How is YOUR gardening coming along? Are your evening temperatures above freezing yet?
~Mavis
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Susan says
You got a total steal-of-a-deal on that patio set! One teak wood adirondack chair is $212.88 ON SALE
at Amazon!! I want to go to Garage Sales with you!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
Mavis Butterfield says
Seriously? I had no idea they were that much!!!
Kari says
Don’t you need more than one apple tree for a polinator?
Mavis Butterfield says
Great question! The espalier fruit trees I will be getting will have 2-4 different varieties grafted to them. 🙂
Kay Nyman says
My seedlings are coming along so nicely! We’ve had a few nights still dipping in the freezing temps here in NH, so I’ve been bringing them inside off our unheated sunporch. But they are coming right along, ready to be planted in a month or so!
Sherle says
We’ve been able to garden for quite awhile, no nasty weather here, unless you count it getting too hot too fast and then cooling back off again. The day the HH got the watering in we were informed that we have to move out of our home. We are so lucky that we didn’t have the plants in the beds. We have a friend who lets us use some of his space for growing things like corn and such and when he found out we have to move he told us to bring everything down there. We are currently gardening 25 minutes from our home, looking for a new place to live, and packing. I am just grateful I get to have my summer garden, even if I have to drive to it.
We have all sorts of things planted, pinto beans (1,440 plants), corn (644 corn plants), potatoes (several different varieties), tomatoes (lots of tomatoes), summer squash, zucchini, tatuma’s, patty pans, pickling cucumbers, marigolds, green beans (three varieties), onions, beets (three varieties), and cabbage.
My HH is making another garden bed so we can plant the remaining plants growing in the greenhouse. Lots of peppers, sweet and spicy, melons, pumpkins, winter squash, basil, cumin, echinacea, eggplant, broccoli, chamomile, more marigolds, kale, chard, collard greens, and some flowers that the bees and butterflies will love.
It’s lots of work, but I’ll take the work over not having a garden any day!
Lana says
I only have 3-4 hours of sun in the sunniest place in my yard and after years of experimenting the best producing tomato that I have found is a Roma grape tomato. They are really big for grape tomatoes so I even slice them up for sandwiches.