I have been extremely busy planting the gardens the past several weeks .. the weather in May in Illinois can be so questionable, from freezing frost to scalding hot sun. This year we had quite a bit of rain and the storms seemed much more severe – still stormy weather roaring around! The spinach is doing well – beets and peas are doing so so…. well, my first year with beets so not sure what to expect. The cucumber has emerged also in this picture in the lower left corner.
I have several types of tomatoes, peppers, corn, beans, squash and flowers! Experimenting with the flowers to see what grows well and can be successfully dried for crafting great flower designs! I have to comment that the insects were ALL over several of the newly planted seedlings and I wasn’t ready for that. Something that did dawn on me as far as companion gardening is that I should have started the companion plants earlier so that they were not at the starting out stage and would be more benefit in repelling the insects that chewed up all my leaves! I did notice also that the area that is newly tilled up for a garden space has more insect damage than the established garden area – woke up those buggers I think! My first Zinnia has bloomed and the Yarrow is not that far behind …
Down south last weekend I did plant some asparagus that was on clearance at the farm store – 2 year old roots ….. good deal!
The box turtle is a new neighbor down there – one of our dogs kept bringing us the turtles … I guess so we could get acquainted!
Another friendly neighbor !!
AND the Baby Birds have emerged … first the Cardinals in the lilac bush – what a Neat event to witness … both parents are diligently feeding them
I Finally did see the Baby Swans today also … there are SIX of them and they are out swimming and feeding along with the parents. I will capture some pictures this week when I am out walking in the area …… they grow SO fast! It looks like the first week in June is the week for Baby Birds to hatch!!!
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