Plants Are Popping Up
Today I found a new nursery, and I love it for two reasons. First, Newbury Perennial Gardens is at someone's house, and you ring a big old bell if they aren't around at the selling shed. Second, they have a 50% off everything sale in August, so I was able to pick up plants for the rest of the perennial border at a fantastic price.
They also had some herbs left, and I got some tarragon, marjoram, and chives. It was lucky that the ones they had just happened to match the ones needed in the bed that's actually ready to be planted. They also had rosemary, and although we don't have the bed where that goes ready yet, for half price I'll find somewhere to put it for now. We were never able to overwinter rosemary at the old house, so it won't be in the ground long before I pot it up and bring it inside for the winter anyway.
From left to right are the tarragon, marjoram, and lavender. In the background where the bed bends you can see the sprouts of fall cabbage and broccoli too. Speaking of sprouts:
This is the other part of the herb bed that is ready. In the center of the foreground you can see the spiky chives I just put in. Tiegan added a butterfly ornament as well. The seeds coming up in rows behind the herbs are radishes, bok choy, and various types of lettuce and spinach.
Our first planting of beans (Blue Lake, which is a bush variety) has come up, along with the peas behind them. A few peas are big enough to be reaching for the netting to climb the trellis. If you look closely, you can see that the stakes around the beans are propping up some black netting. In the old house we used this netting for raspberries, but here we have made a makeshift fence to keep out whatever four-legged bastard ate some of our bean shoots. The spot in the center where there are no leaves is where it did the most damage—you can see some bare stems if you look really close.
If you're having trouble seeing the netting, that's actually a good thing. If this holds up as an effective protection, we might make a whole bunch of semi-invisible netting fences like this (well, with better looking stakes) to protect new seedlings in the spring. Hopefully whatever we come up with will be portable and more attractive than running chicken wire around the whole garden. We worked really hard to make it look nice, so we don't want to ruin it with a crappy critter fence.
Or maybe Kirk will get some sharp hunting tips for archery practice.
They also had some herbs left, and I got some tarragon, marjoram, and chives. It was lucky that the ones they had just happened to match the ones needed in the bed that's actually ready to be planted. They also had rosemary, and although we don't have the bed where that goes ready yet, for half price I'll find somewhere to put it for now. We were never able to overwinter rosemary at the old house, so it won't be in the ground long before I pot it up and bring it inside for the winter anyway.
From left to right are the tarragon, marjoram, and lavender. In the background where the bed bends you can see the sprouts of fall cabbage and broccoli too. Speaking of sprouts:
This is the other part of the herb bed that is ready. In the center of the foreground you can see the spiky chives I just put in. Tiegan added a butterfly ornament as well. The seeds coming up in rows behind the herbs are radishes, bok choy, and various types of lettuce and spinach.
If you're having trouble seeing the netting, that's actually a good thing. If this holds up as an effective protection, we might make a whole bunch of semi-invisible netting fences like this (well, with better looking stakes) to protect new seedlings in the spring. Hopefully whatever we come up with will be portable and more attractive than running chicken wire around the whole garden. We worked really hard to make it look nice, so we don't want to ruin it with a crappy critter fence.
Or maybe Kirk will get some sharp hunting tips for archery practice.
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