Yes, but while making sure the yard was clear for mowing (which meant moving all the squash tendrils back into the garden area and staking up one of the tomato plants that was beginning to creep) I discovered blooms on almost everything. Of course the one thing I was looking for, the bean blooms, aren’t there. I’m still keeping an eye out though.
This is the cucumber. Eventually the fruit develops behind the flower and the bloom drops off.
Here’s the squash blooms, which develop the same way.
And for a bit of perspective about how big there leaves are:
Here’s a shot of that whole plot.
Yes, it is supposed to look overcrowded. The plants are complimentary to each other.
I’ve dubbed this the zombie broccoli, because even though it got knocked over in a storm and all the leaves died off I replanted the stem and it’s come back (see all that nice new healthy growth? That’s what you look for when buying plants from stores, by the way, not the flowers or at the fat, greenhouse grown leaves, but at the new and just starting growth, because that it what will survive transporting and transplants.)
Our neighbor got rid of their hostas (which they had planted in full sun anyway, not their fault, it was that way when they moved in). Hostas are shade tolerant (they can handle up to about 4-5 hours of sun, but thrive in shade too.) and they are really good for those trouble areas, like under trees. This area is shady most of the day, is unevenly covered with evergreen bushes and “landscaped” with rock (I hate landscape rock. You can never get rid of it. Mulch naturally decays, but rock just makes it hard for me to dig. ) I put them here in an effort to fill this area so I can stop weeding it. Despite that black plastic and the rock every year this area gets massively overgrown because in the summer the house sat empty weeds grew on top of it, on top of the weed plastic. The rocks don’t help, they just end up getting flung at me when I’m weed wacking, or spill out into the yard and where they have run ins with the mower.
If these hostas get as strong and thick as the ones I have in the front shade garden then they’ll go a long way to help keep out the weeds.
Speaking of the other hostas, they are flowering.
And so are my stargazer lilies (which are really easy to grow!)
Happy weekend all!
