I Have Been Working in My Garden Bed

 Sorry not to post sooner but I have been busy, busy with one thing or another.

Lately its been my little garden bed.  I had to add compost and removed the old straw and level my bed.  Then I marked it off in squares so I could do the square-foot garden method, which I have always preferred.

I had ordered my tomato and pepper plants and also and English thyme from Territorial Seed in Oregon.  I had done so in the past and been very pleased with them.

This time I received one Galahad tomato with a top lopped off and a broken top branch.  They are sending me a replacement.  They are a good source for buying started plants that you cannot get from the normal box stores around here.

This is my 4' by 8' garden bed with all the tomatoes and peppers in.  I also tuck in radishes, carrots, and lettuce seeds here and there to use all my space with things I like to eat.  In two towers I have Bush Pickle cucumbers and some Straight 8 cukes seeds sown.  The Bush Pickle have broken thru the topsoil but I have yet to see the Straight 8s.  If they are not thru by tomorrow, I will sow a few more replacement seeds for that tower.  I have parsley planted but have also sown some chives and scallions as well as Nasturtiums flowers (Nite N Day and Jewel Mix) to bring in bees to pollinate.  My Salad Burnet from last year is doing very well.  Its in the top right-hand corner looking bright and green inthids photo.  It has a slight celery flavor in its leaves which you toss in your salads.

In this photo above you can see the French Breakfast radishes along the front have popped up along with some of the Alkindus (red) and Thom Thumb (green) leaf lettuces I sowed behind them.

My neighbor gardeners are getting in their crops as well. 

We are lucky to have many flowers in our patio garden.  Among them are some young lilac bushes.

These are still young but the aroma in our patio area is marvelous right now.  I noticed that the younger bushes that mark our property line between us and the dam property are starting to bloom on their young branches as well.  

We have lovely Creeping Phlox growing alongside some of our flower beds.  It makes a lovely blanket in the spring.

Here in one of the flower beds are some pink and white Columbine, another pretty spring flower.  Too bad they do not last too long since they are all so lovely.

Here's a view of the left side of our garden path of flowering beds with more Creeping Phlox.

I got out this morning to sow a few more radishes and lettuce seeds among the squares in my bed.  We got nearly a half inch of rain last night which pleased me.  I did not have to water my garden bed.

Have a good day.