Garden Update - Week Four

Soooo... stuff appears to be going well in the garden for the most part. We had some strong winds over the past weekend and it hit the sunflowers and mint pretty hard. The mint will probably recover, but unfortunately one of the sunflowers didn't survive. The strawberries aren't doing so well... this makes me sad. :(

We also potted some more purple coneflower and strawflower. Other recent additions include some purple and white daisies, some wall-mounted planters, and a new table. Matching chairs coming soon!

My ex-boss is coming over for dinner in a couple weeks, so hopefully there will be some more improvement and growth before then :) I'm also going to have to get cleaning. The patio just needs a good sweeping, but the house is another story. Eek!!! Some heavy spring cleaning is definitely in order.

Anwyay, here are some pics. Enjoy!

These are the daisies I bought. I dead-headed two of them a couple days ago and now they are really blooming!











Planted the purple coneflower in this Guinness ice bucket. Cute, huh?








Here are the runner beans. They are growing like... weeds, LOL. Soon, they'll blossom and produce edible beans. I wonder if they'll taste like chicken.





And we're down to two. We used to have three mammoth sunflowers planted in this pot, but one fell victim to the wind. Time will tell, right? (On a side note here, we decided to plant some queen velvet sunflowers, as well. These are a reddish maroon color... I think they will add a good contrast to this pot.)

This is an overall view of the north end of my patio, which gets the most sun. All the plants here are doing really well and getting noticably bigger each day (with the exception of the strawberries, which aren't really showing much growth).








The plants on the south side of the balcony, which gets a lot less sun, aren't really doing much of anything. The asclepia tuberosa and black-eyed susans I planted here haven't grown at all since I planted them two weeks ago.



The herbs we planted haven't really grown much, either, but the ones we transplanted are growing a lot. You can see the mint is a bit mangled, but it's nearly doubled in size, despite being manhandled by the wind.