Catnip blooms in the parkway garden. There are four big bunches of catnip this year. After blooming and seeding out these plants will be done for the year. Raspberry bushes will fill in nicely. Hopefully next season the catnip will be able to grow amongst the raspberry bushes. It looks like a lot of seed will be spread from the current crop.
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Wildflowers Catch Afternoon Sun
Wildflowers in front parkway catch afternoon sun light as it filters through trees.
Tomato Patch
All 15 of tomato caged positions as of 7/17/2014. All tomatoes look good. Tomatoes in the same type of container are bigger on western end of the row. Cleome is once again used as a buffer plant placed between sets of tomatoes to attract bees. The western end of the row gets the first shade of the day so I wonder if that has something to do with increased growth.
Catnip Blooms
Catnip blooms in the front parkway; finally! There are three bunches of catnip that somehow survived all the turmoil that happened with that corner at the end of last season. With the added garden space there is more catnip this year than last. It will be interesting to see where it migrates next year as the raspberry bushes begin to dominate.
New Front Parkway
A new corner was installed last season and they turned the front into a front parkway. A container grew raspberries and catnip here in previous years and now the entire 20+ feet is an in ground garden. I was able to save the mature raspberries from last season and they are doing well. Catnip survived and I planted Cleome, and a lot of flowering seeds. There are some volunteer tomatoes and some plants I can’t identify.
The alley planters were disassembled and all that potting soil was used to somewhat raise the center of this bed. In the distance I built a raised bed structure to contain the potting soil. That box is completely wildflower.
I’m letting all tree seedlings grow. By the time the weather cleared to plant trees it was too late so I have to wait until August. If some seedlings look good I may defer to them to grow into full size trees in the next 20 years or so.
SE Corner Main Roof
SE corner main roof has 12 habneros, 2 basils, and a fat eggplant. Last two seasons sunflowers grew here but nothing else grows well with sunflowers. St. Hedwig Catholic church is being restored in the distance. This restoration project has been going on for years now.