I have several big piles of compost that I have been saving for a special project... bringing up the level of the beds down in my bog garden. Over the past two days I have hauled over thirty wheelbarrow loads down the hill to the lower bog bed by the back fence. It currently has a few tomato plants, but the plan it to turn it into a flower bed and move the tomatoes up the hill next year. The worms are rampant in the compost and the bog area was already teaming with them from the other hundreds of loads of organic material I have hauled down there. Of course I already have a vegetable garden higher up the hill, the only things left are tomatoes and a few onions and my pepper plants. The tomatoes and onions have done well, the peppers are just setting blooms. This is the first year ever I have not had to spray my tomato plants, the leaves look healthy the tomatoes look great and so far no invasion of any type of insect. Normally by this time of year they are under siege by insects and diseases and really look ratty.
Just part of what is left in the onion patch, past time to harvest already, but the wife says she has enough onions already.
Tomatoes and peppers:
Surplus tomatoes, in home of future flower bed!
The area in the bog garden is still so wet I have to use plywood for temporary paths when hauling compost down.
Even tho the area stays soggy wet, the daylilies thrive, this bed will gradually be changed to cultivars with names instead of just surplus ones I didn't have room for earlier.
Just a couple of my current compost piles, I depend on these for all my garden beds, I love developing the soil almost as much as growing the plants.
My hostas that I grew from seed have beautiful blooms on them: They are fairly large blooms with tall stems.
Seedlings
My Bressingham Blue hosta has blooms also, they are white and very pretty, but they face down and the stems are very short.
Bressingham Blue
This is my lovely clump (I finally have a large clump) of 'My Path' daylilies!
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