Seeds Emerging & Garden Work
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The seeds I’ve planted are emerging, as I noticed when I was outside doing garden work.
I planted the seeds I ordered from Swallowtail Gardens on Monday evening. The zinnias have already germinated.
I was sitting next to the French doors this morning, eating a bowl of cereal. And I was amazed to see them already pushing through the soil in the pots.
As you can see, the wild morning glories are blooming. The moon flower has been inactive for the past few days.
Veggies Almost Ready To Pick:
I have several tomatoes just about ripe enough to pick. About a half dozen sweet peppers, too.
And the cucumber plant has rebounded after the torrential weeks of rain and is flowering again. Hopefully, I’ll get to eat a cucumber from my plant before long.
I decided to stop paying the monthly Shipt payment for now. I’m mobile enough to get around to the grocery store. After being pretty inactive for four months, I certainly need the exercise.
That’s $14 a month I can save. Charlie’s vet bills are expensive, so I’m cutting back on the bills that aren’t necessary right now. I can always sign back up if I need them to deliver groceries again, because I do love the service.
Purple Sweet Potato Vine:
The purple sweet potato vine is doing much better tucked in against my settee, where it gets more shade.
Yesterday, I cut back the tall and scraggly cosmos, as well as more of the lemon balm plant.
I also had to cut back the lemon balm coming through the cement crack. My water spigot is located near the plant, and the hose was getting caught on it.
I get out there with my garden snips and cut back plants that are looking sad and tired. If you cut them back, they’ll hopefully rebound.
While I was at it, I dead-headed the scabiosa, or pin cushion flower.
Yellow Rose Plant:
I noticed that my yellow rose plant has roots spreading a foot outside the pot, on the ground. And that’s the largest pot I own, measuring 24 inches wide.
I suppose I’ll have to plant it in the ground, although I’m not sure where. That pot isn’t going to contain the growth.
When I bought the rose a few years ago, the nursery said it would probably be okay in a huge pot. But the rose plant has other ideas, it seems. It wants to spread farther out.
Really, about the only flowers that are still blooming well are the zinnias. I love to look out the French doors and see that sea of golden zinnias still looking happy and healthy.
The cone flowers stopped blooming, and the white petals are partly brown from the sun. I’ll wait until the seeds are ready to harvest to snip them for next year. As well as the spent zinnias.
Last night I watched the first episode of the series Rectify on Netflix.
The Premise Of Rectify:
How would you handle readjusting to life after being wrongfully imprisoned for 19 years of your life? Sundance TV’s Rectify addresses this quandary as it follows the life of Daniel Holden.
Convicted and sent to death row as a teenager for the rape and murder of his 16-year-old girlfriend, new evidence sets the stage for his return home to Paulie, Georgia.
Now in his late 30s, Holden attempts to rekindle relationships with his family and friends, something not easily accomplished for someone whose name had been denounced for so long.
The setting is a small town, where, of course, everyone knows everyone else, and people never seem to forget. The townspeople and law enforcement are reluctant to believe the DNA evidence that now proves his innocence.
Some simply refuse to accept the scientific facts presented to them. They’d rather think they’ve got their man and not worry about it anymore.
What I’m Reading:
Then I began reading a new e-book on my Kindle that is set to be released next month.
The search for a teenage runaway sends her foster mother, a psychologist working for the LAPD, on a dangerous journey through Los Angeles’ criminal underworld. This gripping new thriller is by the author of the international bestseller Baby Doll.
When psychologist Becca Ortiz agrees to foster teenage runaway Ash, she knows she will love and protect her as she would her own daughter.
Ash may have turned her back on her old life on the streets, but there is still one person she can’t bear to lose.
Now he is about to drag her back into a dark world where nothing and no one is safe.
How far will Becca go to save her daughter? And can she find her before it’s too late?
I thought Rectify was a fabulous show. My veggies are not doing well so I am getting ready to plant new. It is trial and error for me this year.
Me too.
We are still getting a few lonely and tiny tomatoes, but they are just about done for this year. I’m amazed at how fast zinnias pop up, too. I love them.
The rain shut my veggies down. But now with all this sun they’re coming back. Probably not for long.
Where I live it’s often over 110 degrees for much of the summer. I can grow zinnias consistently. Just throw seeds out and off they go. They even come up on their own. Perfect for hot summers! I absolutely love them. And you can just cut and cut them for bouquets and they will just keep producing. I think you will find a lot of enjoyment from them.
I hope these new seeds take off.
Brenda, Is the Sweet Potato Vine just a sweet potato stuck in the ground? I love the purple leaves. I bought a packet of cauliflower seeds and planted them and what came up instead looks like daisies or zinnia. Go figure. I bought them for my neighbor and then she said she hated cauliflower, so I planted them for myself. It’s a good thing I love flowers. LOL Sandra
No, it’s a plant I bought at the nursery back in April.
A sweet potato vine is a sweet potato variety that has been bred for appearance, to produce lots of pretty leaves rather than for producing big edible roots. Sweet potatoes that make the big edible roots do make a small mound of nice leaves, but they don’t come in all of the pretty colors and sizes and lengths that can be found in ornamental sweet potato vines
Brenda, I just love your photo o_ that golden zinnea. They are one o_ my very _avorite blooms, yet I rarely plant them. Crazy. Wonder whether I could throw in some seeds somewhere yet and see some blooms late summer or autumn. Might be worth a try. I know I have some seeds.
I’m sorry it’s been a rather disappointing gardening season _or you this year. The weather certainly hasn’t been the most cooperative.
I just planted a new batch of zinnia seed to hopefully bloom through a few more months.
Your flowers are lovely,especially the Morning Glories.
Marilyn
They never seem to die. Come back every year.
I loved Rectify. I thought I must have been the only one. There’s a song they play when he’s on a bed and it haunts me and I sometimes I just need to hear it. The song is Charlie Darwin by Low (?) I would look it up for you but never know how to get out and back in to FB. You can find it on You Tube with what little information I gave you. ..or just wait for it. You’ll know.
I love zinnias. There are so many colors and sizes to choose from and they do so well from seed. I don’t like to pay nursery prices for annuals but a packet of seed contains so much joy that I’ll buy zinnia seeds every time. Hope the torrential rains are gone now . The temperature in SC finally went into the eighties and what a relief that is. Glad you’re garden has been revived by the sun.
Your patio garden is so pretty. That sounds like a good book. I’ll have to check it out.
Have you watched The Five by the same guy that did Safe…I highly recommend it.
Not yet.
I think you can cut off those roots that are escaping the pot. Google rose care to be sure, but it shouldn’t hurt the plant.
Rectify is a wonderful show!
I have scabiosa, but never knew the name. Pin cushion is a perfect name for the sweet blooms.
I can’t believe your plants are all past their prime, especially the cosmos – some of mine are just getting their first blooms, and the rest of the cosmos are absolutely gorgeous right now! I’ll have tomatoes before long – and Sweetie brought over a nice head of lettuce and the first of the cucumbers and zucchinis last night. Here we go, crazy harvest season coming up!!