Wow! Lucky. Here we plant on Mother's Day but keep them wrapped in plastic for warmth, and that comes off the first or second week in June. Then you hope to get a tomato by August.
I planted sunflowers for the first time last year. They grew to their expected height and blossomed. One morning I woke up to find they'd been gnawed off at the base, toppled, and the heads eaten. Apparently squirrels do this. It was kind of comical. Sunflower slaughter on 79th St.
Oh no! I hope you got a few days' pleasure from them. We don't have anything that nibbles them here, though I was fascinated to see that ants are doing the pollinating, not bees. And they're red! Hoping to get lots of seeds because I'm going mad with these next season!
Show us pics of your mystery plants!
hahaha I went mad with the weeding. I've put more sunflowers in as at least I can recognise them...
Hang in there! Having unusually summery weather here (plus hail!) after a very late start to the MN spring. Neighbor's early tulips are blooming, but I'm only just seeing a little color in the buds in mine. Just a day or two away, I expect. First bleeding hearts just started flowering. No, not the ones in my shade gardens, but the ones growing in the cracks between the house and the pavers. Eagerly awaiting the arrival of some queen bees!
Haven't grown the red cultivar, but creeping thyme itself is a charming little plant. Fun to pet & smells really nice. Best for very light foot traffic or path edges; likes that silty/sandy well-drained (but moist enough) soil next to pavers and sidewalks and in rock garden/walls. Bees adore the flowers, especially the tiny native bees. Not super-fast spreading, so it's easy to control the shape of the mat. Try it out
It snowed just a tiny bit again overnight here. It's nice for us to have a cool spring for a change but i wish we'd get some real precipitation with it. It's like it "rains" all the time this spring, but it's just windy and we get 0.01" of rain.
Lack of natural precipitation is tough, even if in a predictably arid climate. I like letting things reseed and planting a couple new species every year, so any extra watering just becomes tedious. And the plants are never as happy with city water as they are with the natural stuff. Definitely putting in rain barrels once my housemate gets the gutter situation fixed.
I bought some rain barrels but DH wants to be involved in connecting the downspouts so they are just sitting. I need to get him motivated or let me do it myself soon! In the meantime I keep a pitcher in the sink to catch any wasted clean(ish) water and hand water my plants with that.
Ooh! Don't know those plants, but I already like the look of your (sideways!) dry riverbed. Silly photos ;) What's all in there instead of tomatoes? I've mostly moved to containers for veggies except if I'm starting new perennial gardens; gives me the most flexibility in terms of sun/pH. Of course, I still have to remember to water them
Lots of sun-dried tomatoes, well-before fruiting!
