May 18, 2025. I've worked 4 days and finished, I think

I found out that Friday morning is the best time to go to Walmart.  But even better, each of these 4 packs were $1.  so I ended up planting 64 petunias

This was Mama's garden on May 16

Yay, zucchini coming up.  I also moved some cucumbers closer to the cuke fence

I am going to plant more lettuce

Not very colorful yet

Planted some impatiens, snapdragon and lavender

Bought a poppy. Such bad luck with poppies

I sure hope I can get this grass green. I was gone when the workers put the sod down.

I ended up with 5 tomatoes because one was a double.  2 peppers and one basil. Getting the dirt in these pots was really hard.  I put an old banana peel piece and Epsom salt in the pot as well as bone meal. My bone meal was no longer white. I am going to buy the tomato tone

All petunias except for the one geranium

I put in a couple small dahlias but planted the two dahlia bulb (did that May 8)

I also planted some gladiolas bulbs in the back by the wall and in a pot and down by the fence.  The back yard grass still does not look good even though Tom put fertilizer on it.  I also plants probably 500 marigold seeds in a pot to see if I can get a pot like Judy's was last fall.

 

May 3, 2025.

 I stopped by Plum Creek Market and bought 3 perennials yesterday.  I talked to one of the women and she mentioned how the wise thing to do is to buy a few at a time, maybe one bed or a few to make pots.  I  tend, as she said she does, to buy them all then go nuts and get very sore trying to get everything in.

I bought one of those Jupiter's Beards that I tried to grow under the pine tree. I can't find Annabelle Hydrangeas anywhere.  

Then today I planted the zucchini and cucumber seeds.  

Pacing myself.

I received two replacement dahlias. I found out that you are not supposed to water them. That must have been my mistake last year.  You water after sprouts come up. So I guess I will s