I do love to eat the peas right out of the garden!

I have been starting my own seeds. Here are some cowpeas and beans comming up. They will get transplanted to the driveway pot collection when they get a little bigger.

The collection of veggies in the driveway pots and containers.


Cauliflower


The bush beans need to be transplanted into here. These are plastic crates I got bulbs delivered in (Brent& Beckies). I saved them cause I knew they knew they would be useful. I had to line them for the potting mix would stay in.


Baby Green Machine melon seedlings I grew myself from seed.


The Armenian Cucumbers have been planted in this big bowl style pot.


Bok Choi seedlings transplanted to bowl type planter.


And everything.

Pea blossoms.

Yep. All excited to see the peas start to bloom. I do love to eat them straight out of the garden.



Closeup and long view of the tomatoes in front of the porch. 12-14 inches high.



Sungold and Sugery are my biggest tomato plants. 24-26 inches high.

So I go to the local in town nursery because I need more potting mix. Bought any seeds that I might have forgotten to order at Baker Creek Seeds the other day. I have Fordhook Swiss Chard, Parsely, Cilantro, and Dill. I was just there two days ago but today they had an entire new selection of plants in. I guess in time for the big Holiday weekend.

Anyway. They had all sorts of new peppers in and heavy on the hot peppers. But I found and bought a Sweet Banana Yellow Pepper. Don't like the hot peppers.

Then I have not had tomatillos in years. But they had tomatillo plants so I bought one. Tomatillos add the best flavor to salsa. I used to do salsa with tomatillos years ago.

And best of all I got two new eggplants. I have CLASSIC already but they had plants of ICHIBAN and GRETAL. Gretal is a white eggplant Iciban is a long fruited asian variety.

Here are my Lady Bell peppers planted. Now I have to find a spot for todays new pepper plant.


The Cauliflower has really greened up and grown since I planted it.


Pea blossoms on the Norli peas. Plus today I see that the Super Sugar Snaps have some blossoms also.


Sugar Lace II peas not blooming yet.

So ok, before my trip out to the local nursery I was admiring my zucchini plants.

green zucs


yellow one


I pinched off a fruit and a blossom on one plant because there was no other blossoms to pollinate it.

For a few days I have been thinking on what to do to get slightly more veggie garden space. I have decided on a plan of action after kicking the idea around for a few days. I will take some of my backyard Tall Bearded Iris bed and convert it back to a veggie garden. The garden area that is now the mid yard daylily and iris bed used to be my veggie garden some years back before I changed it to those flowers. So the TB iris are in a middle of the bed section, Daylilies at the sides. The daylilies will stay as is. The TB iris I will start takling plants from the end nearest the cucumber trellis and moving them into the other end of the bed that is already iris. That means it will end up twice as crowded. I don't care. I like the crowed look and they need to move. The space I end up with depends on how much I can get moved. And how much can get moved depends on how many I can squeeze into the other end. I will just start and see how it goes.

Can't do much now as they are blooming and I don't want to loose the blooms. After all they only come around once a year.

Ok some pictures to show what I mean.

The backyard TB iris bed.


The iris bed thru the cucumber trellis.


closer on the cucumber trellis


The main path thru the midbackyard and the two cucumber trellis.

Another zucchini blossom today. I had one yesterday.


the bok choi has grown lots since I transplanted it.


cucumber seedlings not growing much


I did get the cowpeas transplanted. Very small yet so they need to grow. No idea what to expect with these. One cowpea plant to a pot. I have 5 of them.


The new eggplants are now in their big pots and ready to grow.


tomatillo planted in ground


yellow pepper plant in ground also


I transplanted my bush bean seedlings. I think they are too far apart but the rest of the seed never came up. They are in a 24 by 16 container. I guess tomorrow I will add a few more seeds in there and hope they come up.


I did these bowl type containers. Planted seeds in each. Cilantro, Parsley and dill bowls now done. Plus a have a bigger bowl that I planted my Swiss Chard seeds. Got the green chard as I didn't much like the taste of the rainbow chard last year.


My yard long bean seedlings are still there. Really bad weather drove me inside before I could get to planting them.

Geez, you're going to have an entire produce market this year. You'll have enough to drive them into the city & sell.

I have no idea what I will do with all this produce. I just like to grow things!

Well, I do want things for garden veggie soup. That will be whatever veggies I have to pick and throw in the crockpot.

Oh and I wanted to add that many things there are not lots and lots if but a small amount of.

All in all though, you have quite a variety going there.

It is much nicer out today than yesterday so maybe I can make some more progress with my garden. I was out there yesterday in spite of the drizzel, wind and cold!

The driveways pots have really multiplied again as I put lots of new ones out yesterday. I am glad I decided on pots on the driveway because it has allowed me the space I do not have in ground for a whole bunch of stuff I now have planted or started. I want to plant some new veggie, I just haul more pots out of the garage!

The space I want to move TB iris out of upstairs will be a good spot for my greens. I can start some for a fall crop although it will be too late for the spring crop by the time I get the iris moved. It is not a big space. The iris bed is only 4 feet 8 inches wide. So I would like to do lettuces, spinach, mustard, other greens. Beets and turnips would definatly go there. No beets and turnips planted here yet. Maybe my brocolli and celery.

Snow Peas, brocoli and onions grow in pots on the back patio.


Zen Greens


The bowl planter I did yesterday that I planted Swiss Chard Seeds.


The pots on the driveway keep multipling!


Yesterday I add cow peas, bush beans and the two new eggplants to the things already there. Cowpeas are in the smaller black pots to the top right.

Too funny about your multiplying pots, Rita. I can relate.

The funny part is that I have been getting all these pots out of my garage. So I had stuff in them at one time around in the garden. But now I can't see what I could have had in all theses pots years ago.

I also have been wondering what I had in some of the empty pots I am finding.

I hope this pot thing isn't contagious, I have a shed full of pots and a few dozen more under the deck!

quietyard said:I also have been wondering what I had in some of the empty pots I am finding.