You're making me feel lazy Rita!

Believe me, I have been lazy these past two hot days. I still have things came mail order to plant and I have to move more roses for my veggie garden area but it is hot so I didn't do either. Not that it is overly hot for a Long Island summer (always hot and humid) but that it is early so I guess not aclimated to it the way I am in July and August.

But today I decided to try my hand again at melons. I used to grow them maybe 12 years or so ago. You really need to trellis them. But I got some seeds so will try afew.

I planted some of my cucumber seeds in the cellpacks. I only did one cellpack each, one for the China Longs and one for the Armenian. I thought about it and since I usually only buy one of those four pack cell packs for each varity of cucumber and I get tons of cucumbers, I figgured it would be enough. I do pick out packs that have muliple seedlings in each quarter and just plant them all together. So I put multiple seeds in each part and will just plant whatever comes up. And I have more seed if I should need it for some reason.

The adventures in cucumber growing begin. Well, I do already have cucumber plants growing from seedlings bought at the nursery.

This is one of my pots of Chinese Long Beans planted May 25th. You can see they are up quickly.

Whoa!stand back

I can't figgure out how I will rig up something high enough for them to climb that they will be really happy. From what I read they climb ten feet or more. I can't reach that high.

The regular string beans are fine on 6 foot trellis.

Seeds came today in the mail again including my Avara Melons. 10 seeds in there. Wow, no room for error. I planted them in a 4 container cell pack. Better to start them this way and then plant them out after they come up.

Great!

I got my order today from Bluestone Perennials. Got three good size Winterberries and two Baptisia Australis, and a huge coneflower. Can't believe how cheep these plants were. This is the biggest Coneflower I have gotten all year and it was only 4.47. The other plants are all a foot tall at least.

They said my order was shipped but it is not here yet. Still waiting!

Well hopefully tomorrow, the weekend is almost here. They ship UPS here.

I ordeered some seed from eThaiGrocer five months ago. No answer to the first 4 emails, then he said his office was flooded out and he had an accident.

That was four weeks ago ("you should receive them in 10-15 business days") and nothing yet.

True, they ARE coming all the way from Thailand ...

If there was a flood then his whole business could have washed out to see or at least everything in it. Takes a long time to recover, he will probably have to start all over. Gracious, if it were not for bad luck he would not be having none!

I ordered seed from Japan before and it always takes close to a month for anything to arrive.

Well, my Bluestone order did arrive this morning. Unpacked it and guess what? That Salvia is deffinately NOT indigo Spires as I had been warned here. At this stage I am going to contact them and make them refund my money. Then I just give up. Just not going to have Indigo Spires this year. I simply do not feel like ordering plants fromn anywhere now that it is June already.

Sorry to hear that Rita

But your garden is fabulous regardless!!

I was able to get some really nice Salvias earlier from Santa Rosa so I do have salvias. And I got the annual blue bedding kind locally. So I am not in bad shape. Just that the indigo spires is so dramatic and goes in the same spot each year. Oh well. I think of someting else to put up there.

There's someome omcubits doing a salvia coop. It's in the ella's Garden cubit.

Thank you Judy! I am off to take a look

One on Mamajack too.