* We have harvested our first lettuce and spinach!!!! And since I greatly over estimated in the garden as usual, we are enjoying salad at every meal--including breakfast.
* Most of the garden is in, but I have finally learned that no matter what the weather looks like currently, peppers planted before Memorial Day are going to die. It's as guaranteed as me trying to grow African violets as houseplants.
* Some friends are simplifying their landscaping, so they gave us bunches of daisies, irises, and day lilies to plant in out flower beds. I am choosing to focus on how nice it was of them to share, rather than considering that they might be choosing to get rid of them for a reason....
* Friday night we went to a "house concert" at a friend's house. One of the musicians was a lady who had always wanted to learn to play the electric guitar, so took it up at the age of 50. Gotta admire her on that one!
* Saturday night we went to another friend's 50th birthday party, and Andy has now seen his first male stripper and lived to tell the tale.
* We have a little half-sized shovel, and with that I can dig with one hand fairly easily. Of course, it would be a lot easier if I had injured my left arm instead of my right, but we can't have everything.
* I'm in that dangerous gardening mode--most things are planted but aren't requiring anything else, and I'm flipping through seed packets thinking "What else can I plant?"
* This weekend I listened to Pinocchio--the REAL book, not the Disney version. Even though I read a lot as a kid, I had never read the original story. Technically, I'm not sure anyone at Disney has either......
* Remember how I planted beets about a month ago? Well, we do have one coming up, but it's in a different bed than where I planted them. This is becoming an awful lot of work for a vegetable I've refused to eat most of my life.
* I may have opened the last jar of the dill & mustard pickles this weekend. (sob!) Not that I don't still have the traditional dills, but to be two and a half months away from having more of my favorite pickles will be tragic.
* We're already discussing plans for Canning Season. I think other people call it "fall."
* If I ever get it tamed, in the future I will remember to NEVER plant mint without containing it. I was lured into a false sense of security because it didn't grow the very first time I planted it.
5 comments:
Yes, mint is a real pest of a plant. I have one in what was originally a plastic plant pot. The poor pot has been cracked and distorted by the mint. I am going to have to cut the remains of the pot away from the plant.
I have a much stronger wooden tub to replant it in. However, since the wooden tub has a hole in the base, I shall definfitely have to find somewhere well away from any flower or vegetable bed to place it.
Good luck with yours.
NEVER plant mint PERIOD. Instead, get a friend to plant it and when you want mint, pay him/her a visit. I am impressed that you have everything planted already. I am keeping the tomatoes and peppers indoors until it stays above 50 degrees at night. And I plant zucchini late, to avoid the first hatch of squash bugs. So far, it has worked. (Knock on wood!)
Craving that mustard pickle recipe now. Will you share?
Make a veggie smoothie with beets, greens and all, an apple and some cabbage or kale - you'll feel so healthy.
Mint = more mojitos - buy some rum soon!
I read somewhere to plant mint close to your house because it will keep mice away (they don't like the smell) I have a contained area next to the back door and I'm trying it.
I had a friend who owned an herb nursery. You could always tell if something was invasive because she would say, "Have you ever talked to anyone who planted that in their yard?" Clue...don't!
This also goes for Lemon Balm and Borage. I have some wonderful Walking Onions, would you like to plant them?
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