2017 Garden Update, 4/24/2017

Can you believe it?! Gardening season is finally here! Well, according to the weather forecast, it’s gardening season for a day or two then it’ll be cold and wet again! Geesh!  But, I couldn’t wait any longer, so it’s officially the first Garden Update post!  Last year, I waited until the end of May and well…that is just too long!  So, here it is!

So, is there a lot to update you on with the gardens?  Have I actually done a lot in the gardens yet?  No, not really, but I am so stinking excited this year to share it all with you, that I figured we might as well start from the very beginning, right?!

Vegetable Garden

I basically badgered T this weekend to till our vegetable garden until he gave in!  It seemed dry on the top…well, maybe he was right and it was too wet.  However, he’s as stubborn as I am, so by the time he had tilled half of it, he told me I was planting it, so planting we did!  We put in cucumbers, green onions, radishes, tomatoes, and a row of green beans!  I’m hoping the sun and warm temps today will give those little seeds a jump start otherwise, I’ll never live this down!  (I think you can see from the picture how wet it actually was..you can see where we packed it down in between rows!)  There is still the other half of the garden to till and plant (when and if it ever dries up) along with 2 other sections that are adjoining!

Flower Gardens

There isn’t a ton going on with the flower gardens yet.  I haven’t started to plant the annual flower that fill my flower boxes and landscaped beds, but I did work in my perennial beds this weekend! Working the soil up around the perennial plants, weeding, and even expanding one bed left my back aching, but oh so worth it!

I expanded my lily flower bed!  I’ve decided I’m officially a lily collector!  I order a new lily hybrid from a garden catalog and T appeased me by spading over some new area to make the lily bed bigger!  Woohoo!  Lilies from last year (and before) are coming up nicely and I got my new ones planted!

The only real thing doing its thing of blooming, are our tulips!  I say “ours” because they are really more T’s than mine!  He and my mom have had a tulip rivalry for several years now and I’m so glad they have because I’ve gotten to reap the benefits!  I mean, how gorgeous is this tulip?!  For the pros, I’ll have you know that I didn’t do a thing to edit this photo except for cropping it!  That, is Tulip Perfection!

I hope you’ve enjoyed my short tour of my gardens!  I’ll be back in two-three weeks with an update and I can’t wait to share it all with you throughout this summer!