Fairies and Pirates

Golden Marguerites

Pink Peony bush

Happy Father's Day

The card I made for my Sweetie Pie

Geraniums

The garden is almost done

Some seeds are planted.

My email account was "redirected"

Broccoli starts with a smattering of compost around each, and 2 Marketmore cucumber plants in foreground. One hill has 2 plants and the farther hill has 3. 

So just a word of explanation. I told you yesterday that I had not been receiving any email, and I thought things would work themselves out overnight. But this morning I discovered that things hadn't. I phoned ITS at Queens University and discovered that they did have a breach on May 29th, but things were back to normal. When I explained that my account was not back to normal, they checked it out. And yes, my account had been compromised. I am good to go now. I had to change my passwork (darn), but anything that was sent to me between yesterday morning at 1 AM and today at 9:30 AM is lost...gone forever. If you sent me an email yesterday, I won't get it. Nathalie, I got yours through Blogger. 

I planted 4 romaine lettuce starts

I am embarrassed to show these "falling down" wine barrels.You remember I told you that these were my flower planters. This spring I emptied the dirt and tried to transport them to the edge of the garden to use for my strawberry runners. The bottoms had completely rotted away and the slats fell away as soon as the dirt was removed. The dirt was obviously what kept them together. So I reconstructed them in my garden to use as potato towers. I put three seed potatoes in the bottoms of each and covered with dirt. As the plants grow, instead of hilling them, I will add more and more dirt to the barrels. If it works, I will have potatoes in the barrels and all that dirt will help to add and amend the soil (Pinterest). If the barrels fall away, well.......they are garbage anyway.  The green bins will now hold my strawberry runners. (There are holes in the bottom). I only managed to fill 3 of the six, then ran out of time. The strawberry plants now are fruiting. 

My four red bell pepper plants are in front of the strawberries still in the big garden. You can see the green berries. And that is why I have to wait until after they finish fruiting before I can transplant them. There is also some dill trying to come up there in the corner. They are volunteers from last season's seeds. 

I realize you can't see the whole garden from these few photos. Maybe after I plant my seeds, you will get a better view. I planned to go out to plant those said seeds first thing, but I was tied up on the computer and on the phone with ITS resolving my problem. Then I had to make and bake some more doggie treats before 11 AM, which is when Ontario Hydro rates go up to their highest rate of the day. My Sweetie Pie grilled me some hotdogs on his new favourite toy. "Dee" gifted me with an electric "Foreman" grill from someone who was moving and didn't want to take it with him. My SP loves using it.  I may go out now to start planting and I will see how far I get. 'Til later. 

In the veggie garden

I am thinking that perhaps my Queen's server is down. I have not received any mail today, although I obviously have internet.  I will not have any photos today either, as I usually mail them directly from my Blackberry...and the mail isn't working.

Yesterday, because my back was still tender, I stayed indoors and made some birthday cards for my June birthdays and one Father's Day card.  Today however, I was feeling so much better, that I actually used the roto-tiller this morning to prepare the soil with peat moss and manure. Then my husband and I drove to the local nursery to pick up some starts and some bedding plants for some of my planters. I finished my 3 planters in the front yard and only 2 at the back. I guess I will have to make another trip to finish up.

But I did get all my veggie starts in the ground. I planted 8 broccoli plants (because we had such good luck with them last summer), four tomato plants that I put right into my flower beds, only one cherry tomato plant, 4 red pepper plants, 2 cucumbers and four romaine lettuce. I will definitely be buying more tomato plants to put in the big garden. Planting tomato plants in amongst the flowers is an experiment. I still have cherry tomatoes in my freezer from last summer. We couldn't keep up with harvesting 4 plants. Every time I make homemade soup, I throw a few cherry tomatoes in the pot from the freezer. But we just had too many, so I made the decision to only buy one plant this year. Hope that wasn't a mistake. I also need to buy a yellow squash zucchini. I didn't see any this morning.

We also bought seeds, which I haven't planted yet. I bought sugar (pie) pumpkins, sweet corn, green and burgundy beans, carrots and red leaf lettuce.....those on top of the turnip, green onion and cabbage seeds that I bought on Saturday. While at the nursery, my husband asked if they sold seed potatoes and he was shown some large plastic buckets in one of the sheds and was told to help himself. They were free for the taking. Bonus! I haven't grown potatoes before, so we only took about 2 dozen. I will show you my potato barrels when my pictures come in. Hopefully, I'll have lots of photos tomorrow. Have a great night.

Hallelujah. We had rain.

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