The "Egyptian onions" or "walking onions" are on the move at last.
It took several years to get these established here, despite their mint-like reputation for vigorous spreading. This year they are looking very healthy, and are already dropping their heads to the ground to create more plants.
Two varieties of pole beans are starting to come up.
Some of the plants have already been destroyed by an unidentified critter.
Very unfortunate.
Also unfortunate is that something got into the terrace garden in the last 48 hours and munched off the top couple of feet of many of my thornless raspberry plants, which I've spent years encouraging. Based on the height of the browse line it almost has to be deer damage, which has never been an issue here before.
In happier news, there are a few more spiderworts blooming up by the barn:
And for everyone who has been sharing pictures of their tomato plants, here are some of mine, seeded directly into one of the tall metal beds back on the 19th of May:
Hang in there, little tomato plants!
This last one is not really a garden picture, but under the category "Reasons to Carry a Hand Lens" here is Prunella vulgaris, the very common little "heal-all" plant, growing along one of my paths between paddocks and house:
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I hope your gardens are doing well.
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No walking onions, but we have garlic scapes that want to take over the garden. I'd pull them all out, but the bees LOVE them. Usually the deer like our meadow... but someone came and ate one tomato plant. I never knew spiderworts existed until Friday night, and now I've seen them twice! LOL Pretty flowers.
ReplyDeleteGo garden, go!
I usually have quite a tangle of spiderwort flowers in purple, white, and a lavender/white, but this year I can count the ones that have managed to stay upright enough to flower. Raining again today!
DeleteI had those onions but last fall I couldn't deal with them and the died out. Bummer.
ReplyDeleteLove the close-up of heal-all. Such wonders right in front of us.
My garden is finally doing good, after much struggle with it being too wet. I dug dome trenches, hiller some stuff up, replanted other stuff....only real failure is the lima bean arch. Only 3 or 4 beans sprouted despite replanting, soaking seeds and replanting again, covering with netting to keep out birds and critters. Sigh. All for naught. On the bright side we are having a banner year for black raspberries! First time in years I have had so many.
Good news about the blackberries! I'm hoping for a good raspberry year, if that unseen varmint leaves the plants alone now. I've planted the walking onions twice, a couple of years apart, but this year is the first time they have really "taken" and look happy. Maybe all the rain suits them?
DeleteSuch lovely garden photos! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThank you! :)
DeleteI wish we still had a garden so we could try those walking onions. The RC has quite the jungle happening on our balcony and things are really starting to jump now. He started some roma tomatoes from seeds he saved from grocery-store ones and they germinated but weren't doing well so we replaced them with much healthier versions from the garden centre. They're blooming already so it won't be long before we have tomatoes.
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