Annuals, natives, & herbs — oh my!

2023: this year's garden

Welcome to 🍅 GARDEN NOTES 🥬

A gardener lite logbook of weekly learnings & findings as I tend to my garden this season. Receiving guidance primarily from my elders; my neighbor, mother-in-law, grandparents, and greenhouse friend. Secondary resources are the Old Farmer’s Almanac and Google.

Logbook:

• Intro: This year’s garden. (you’re here.)

• Week 1: Garden prep

• Week 2: Planting

• Week 3: Fertilizer

• Week 4: Growth

• Week 5: First harvest

• Week 6: Interlude

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The Garden

Here’s a roundup of plants in my garden this year. Garden is an all-encompassing term for all the plants in our yard and in the borrowed raised beds at our neighbors. I had a perception I couldn’t plant anything in our yard because it’s heavily shaded by our mama oak and maples surrounding the lot line. This year I decided I need to bloom where I’m planted and try anyway. I can hold off no longer for larger land, more sun, or the idealized environment, outfit, and tools to grow a garden. I can try now, right where I am. Fail forward with me! and my flowers:

Flower boxes (2) - annuals

• bright red geraniums

• dusty millers

• variegated vine variety

Front path – annuals & perennials

• Beachgrass (2)

• Sedum (3) - lost the 4th from last season

• Lavender (2)

• Allium (2)

• peony - have to plant

• marigolds & pansies - flamingo planter

Herb boxes (2) - full sun

• Chives

• Marjoram

• Rosemary

• Peppermint

• Lavender

• Basil

Herb pots (4) - partial sun

• Lemon balm

• Sage

• Cilantro

• Dill

Perennials – backyard

• Daisy (1)

• Purple plant - have to identify (1)

• Light purple plant - have to identify (1)

• Tiger lilies (lots)

• Ferns (2)

• Blue-green hostas (2)

• Mrs. Moonflower (2)

• Blue-green spiky plant - have to identify (2)

• Hanging Boston ferns (2)

Butterfly garden – front yard

• White milkweed

• Pink milkweed

• Coneflower

• Dill - have to plant

• Milkweed - have to plant

• Orange & yellow marigolds border

Raised beds, 3’ x 8’ (2) – neighbor’s garden

• Box 1

  • Celery (4)

  • Blue kale (4)

  • Spinach (6)

  • Collared greens (6)

  • Green peppers (3)

• Box 2

  • Watermelon (3)

  • Zucchini (4)

  • Cucumber (4)

  • Strawberries (2)

Tomato pots (6)

• Tommy-toe (1)

• Beefsteak (4)

• Cherry (4)

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