My Horticultural Haven

So the weather has finally warmed up and I’m up to working on the rest of my garden. Just to bring you up to snuff, the area I refer to as my horticultural haven includes my veggie garden(herbs, veggies and flowers), berry patches, bog garden, soon to be sunflower garden aswell as the future site for my 8’x16’ green house.

I was able to work up the garden much earlier then last year, but have procrastinated some because of the chilly weather, so only now am I getting round to the main planting. From last year all 3 berry patches are a mess (strawberries, raspberry & blackberry and blueberry). Yesterday we did some planting(all standard tomatoes are in, just need to get the cherries in and possibly a couple more early varrieties) we also planted the peppers (still need a bunch of those) and most impressively, we tackled the blueberry batch. There were 2 plants at one end and 3 at the other… ran the tiller through where we could, then dug out the rest of the weeds. Worked in a bunch of organic matter, including alot of peat, hopefully that will set them in the right way. once we re-preped the site, we planted a further 5 bushes (3 from last year, 2 from this spring) wouldn’t you know I’m 1 bush short?! Will fix that tomorrow when i go plant shopping.

my golden oregano is growing nicely:

We did do some plant shopping saturday afternoon. I must say, alot of plants are alot more expensive then they’ve been in the past, like double and triple the prices they were last year from the same places. oh well gardening is what i like so I’ll keep shelling out the money!

I must say that I’m unsure of what to put in my flower row this year :( This is the first year where I have been completely uninpired by whats available. We hit 4 or 5 places saturday and all I came home with were some pink bicolour petunias, wine bicolour snapdragons, and wishbone flower… oh wait came back with some lobillia too lolha.

I’m sure tomorrow will be more fruitful. Atleast I did well in the herb department. I’ve gotten most of what i had last year and can probably fill in the holes tomorrow.

Speeking of herbs, the chives are particularlly pretty right now :

Thanks for reading,
Sib ;)