Seedfork's blog: Bed ready for planting..also first ripe tomato of the season.

A very humid morning, with a slight chance of a little thunderstorm this afternoon.
I got out pretty early today, trying to beat the heat. I needed to work on the triangular bog bed I removed the Flore Pleno daylilies from. So I hauled 10 wheelbarrow loads of compost down to the bed to fill in the low spots in the corners where the plants had been removed from. I had planned to do this in Oct. but I am a little ahead of schedule, and that is good.
Here are some of the plants I removed, my wife has some friends who said they would be over in the next couple of days to pick them up.

Here is the big Flore Pleno I saved for the center of the bed. I will eventually get around to moving most of the plants over on the left of the photo also, they are crowding some of my newer plants. I have left the open area so I can get my wheelbarrow in and out and work the plants, it will be the last section eventually filled with plants.

This is the corner that already has named varieties planted in it. I want the other two corners to match it.

This corner has been cleared of plants and compost, alfalfa pellets, and milorganite added. It is just waiting on the new plants...Oh, I do still need to add some high nitrogen fertilizer. I need to go buy that this morning.

This is the other corner already finished except for the fertilizer.

So glad I planted lots of Zinnias this year. Here is one group of them.

Back a few months ago I picked up this old discarded fire pit cover, it is working out great protecting my new cucumber seedlings from all the digger citters. Speaking of cucumbers, I have never grown such beautiful cucumbers as I have this year, 'Market More 76' makes such beautiful long stocky cucumbers. My little picklers are doing good, but not nearly as pretty as the Market More.

Harvested my first ripe tomato of the season, way behind the past two years, normally I would have had tomatoes a month ago at least. This one is a Homestead.


Made it up to Lowe's and picked up a bag of 29-0-5 delayed release fertilizer good for three months. Manged to buy a new pair of gloves I had been needing for awhile and four Gerbera Daisy plants marked down to $1.00 each. I think I got a red, yellow, and a white, in the fourth one I think has two colors in it.'
Went out later this afternoon and harvested my first straight neck squash, it's beauty! 'The MarketMore 76' cucumber is the narrow one, this is one of the smallest ones I have picked so far. They get way larger than this and still taste and look fabulous.

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