No work today in my garden. I went over to my friends house and we planted flowers. Annual flowers all in her back yard. She had flats of them we bought when we were nursery shopping last week. So many Marigolds. So much color from them. Also impatients, vinca, lantana, sedum and some herbs. I might be forgetting something but thats the bulk of it. We were at it for hours.

I think there's a grain of truth to the companion plant stuff, but I also think there are a lot of additional factors in play that can affect the outcome, as Bob said. If I plant marigolds, it's more because I like them than because I think my peppers (or whatnot) will benefit.

On the other hand, I"m trying mint as a companion plant in my veggie beds this year, to see if I can keep the bunnies from smelling the delicious produce. I just lifted the row cover on the tomato bed and discovered the peppermint is as tall as the tomatoes (we're talking 2 feet tall!), time to give it a haircut. The spearmint ('Kentucky Colonel') in the main veggie bed is much less thuggish, so I think it'll be OK with cukes, beans, etc.

I didn't realize comfrey had such a long tap root. Guess I will try to work around my one big clump of it when setting up my new raised bed rings... I was thinking I could move it over about 18", but I'm not digging that deep!

And, if you leave any of the root, it will grow right up through the raised bed, and you'll have another plant there. We started ours in three raised beds. I think I bought about 30 root pieces. They grew like crazy! We decided to transplant them around the food forest closer to the plants they would be fertilizing. Now, we have about 50-60 comfrey plants. The ones we moved, and all the ones that grew again from broken root pieces in the three raised beds. That's ok since we use the "chop and drop" method of fertilizing in the FF. I'm glad they don't spread. It is one plant per root piece.

I planted salvias & petunias today...soil was damp & cold all the way down....

I watered everything I have planted here this Spring. Lots of stuff.

I have so much left to plant, I'm getting anxious!

RobinD said: I have so much left to plant, I'm getting anxious!

I have to wait for stuff I am growing from seed to get to transplant size. I have been planting for two weeks now and have much done.

RobinD said: I have so much left to plant, I'm getting anxious!

Me too! The busiest time of year for a gardener.

Add me to the anxious list.

Gardening keeps us young!

I got nothing done yesterday because it rained. I wanted to do some fetilizing but it had to wait.

I put bagged granular fertilizer on my newly planted impatient plants. I also hit them with a weak solution of Liquid Fetilizer. Some of the plants are a bit too yellow which means they need feeding.

I was trying to see if anything germinated in my in ground seeded cucumbers. Not much did.

I am not having too much luck direct sowing the cucumbers these past few years. Transplants work better.

I do have baby tranplants I sowed myself but they need to grow bigger before planting out. Meanwhile I sowed more cucumber seeds in cellpacks this afternoon.

Cukes like warm soil...I wait until Memorial Day to plant them...

RobinD said: Cukes like warm soil...I wait until Memorial Day to plant them...

Its warm enough for them to germinate here. Just that they keep getting covered up by leaves and garden stuff and then I can't find them.

Took a gazillion pics on Friday. 2:45 am and I am just finishing some paperwork. Too late to post. Will post on Saturday.

Finally figured out what we want to do around the outside of the greenhouse. It includes a big storage unit for greenhouse supplies; finally installing the trench drains on either side of the greenhouse; running a drainpipe down into the field; grading in front of the tool shed next to the greenhouse; installing river rock around the greenhouse for drainage, looks, and less weed whacking right up to the greenhouse.

We started clearing the area. We started putting together the Suncast; it will not be completed until we install drains and stone on the northern side of the GH.

A lot of work to do. We thought we would just get the Suncast together today, but we came up with the plan as we worked. We turned one workday into about 5-7 more!

Tomorrow is rain all day. Plan to get more plants in the FF on Sunday before they outgrow their 2nd pots. Monday is already booked. So, Tuesday, we might get some more work done of the GH landscaping. We'll see. We are behind. It seems no matter how early we start, how much we plan, something always comes up around planting time. It was like this all week. Playing catch-up now.

I'll post with some pics today (Sat). Perhaps they will give you an idea of what we are doing.

The weather has been uncooperative...we are all behind...sounds like a lot of site work, Jim...I need to have some done, keep getting water in the cellar...not much, but any is too much!

I sowed more seeds in cellpacks. I sowed taller zinnias that I can plant on the hill or along the property line. And I sowed more Marigolds. I want plenty of marigolds.

Ugg this rain is getting to me...had to mulch in the rain. I didn't order enough I don't know what I was thinking. I hate to pay another delivery charge since the nursery is only 3 miles away. My husband will go get two more yards in the truck and I will shovel it out from there into the wheelbarrow. We skipped doing the back last year so I really need it in the back.
My zinnia seeds like the rain and quite a few have popped up now we just need some sun and warmth to keep them going.

My fav zinnia from last year was Sungod....tall, bright yellow, shaggy bloom, no mildew...

I did fertilizing today. I used AgroThrive liquid fertilizer and I fertilized all my Impatient flowers, all my basils, my eggplants, my peppers, my zuchimnni and some of my tomato plants.

The tomato plants in the big backyard bed still need to be done but I will do that another day. There are too many plants here to do it all in one day.