It's raining all day, that nice steady rain that is perfect for plants. Of course that means I can't do anything today but stand around in the doorway looking at stuff.
The Raised Bed is looking really nice. The Tomatoes have grown above the tops of the cages, and are looking really full. None of the tomatoes are showing any kind of red. The Beans are also growing nicely, and I'm starting to see some flowers. The Strawberries in front of the beans are definitely sending out lots of runners. Two of them are shooting over the side of the bed, so I'll try to direct them back in the bed. I'm tempted to mess with them, but I am NOT going to touch them when they're wet. The peppers all seem good. The Jalapeno that I got a week ago is doing great and has lots of peppers, while my original one is just starting to develop one.
Some of the Zinnias have toppled over, so tomorrow I will go out there with the supports and prop them up. The Roses are putting on new growth and a few new flowers. The one farthest back is the slowest to put on any growth, I barely see any. I don't see anything eating the new growth, so hopefully the Spinosad spray took care of it. I dumped a lot of worm tea on everything, without diluting it. I figured the ground was already saturated and it's still raining, so it can't be too concentrated. It smelled a little funky, but I think that's ok.
The front bed looks good. The Creeping Jenny makes this nice carpet over those areas and spills out over the sides, I love it. The Daylilies are great, much more prolific than last year. The big one in the middle is blooming, and it is a kind of dusky red-pink, which I would like to move later. I don't know about the Clematis. It's still alive, but it's not really growing much. It's not getting enough sun, I know. Maybe next year. Hopefully it starts getting some sun before the plants in front of it get too tall. The Echinacea are tall and starting to flower.
The red Daylilies that I transplanted to the sidewalk bed are growing and flowering, and they look really nice in there with the Yarrow. The Yarrow look super good. I badly want to put more in there, more Yarrow, some Coreopsis, maybe some red Echinacea.
The Morning Glory have started to flower! So happy! The leaves still look kinda sad and full of holes, but as they get further along I think they'll be ok.
I got some of that silica powder, and I've been trying to dry everything. Lilies don't seem to be a good choice, the petals end up falling off. Coleus leaves worked ok, but they're so paper thin they might be tough to work with. The Yarrow worked well, using the microwave method, but the color wasn't great, so I'm trying some with the regular, slow method, where you leave it in the powder for a few days.
My outdoor compost is pretty much done. I got a compost sieve, and maybe tomorrow I'll try to get it all out of there. Then I can put in the stuff in the trash bin, along with all the coffee grounds.
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