Into the Vegetable Garden

Yesterday was the day for moving the vegetable starts out of the greenhouse and into the garden. I picked yesterday because:

• This was the weekend it would get done anyway
• The forecast was for a soft rain Friday night and cloudy and rainy on Saturday (great combo for transplants)

I got around 35 tomatoes and 25 pepper plans transplanted and stood back awaiting the rain.

I'm still waiting. All the moisture in the system from the west (that deluged everyone else) is drying up before it hits the ground. We have been at ridiculously low humidity levels (think desert levels -seriously) for several days. We have not had rain in weeks.

I guess I will have to settle for a cloudy day (better than nothing).

So, I will have to leave this post on a more cheerful note. Here is what was in bloom yesterday:

  White bleeding heart (with pink BH in background)

  Perinnial Bachelor's Button (only a couple of blloms right now).

  Honeysuckle is just starting.

  White Lilac - it's been in bloom for a week or so.

And now an Iris. The first picture is what the camera came up with - definitely not representative of a purple iris:

Here is an adjusted picture - more in line with the actual color of the flower. I think the camera got a bit confused because the iris was shaded a bit (or maybe I forgot to set the setting for shade):

Obviously the iris is right next to the house. As such, it is the first iris to open. Most of the irisis away from the house are just now thinking about forming buds.

Today I will probably plant green beans and perform a rain dance. Or maybe I would have a better chnce for rain if I washed my truck!

Comments

[Cop Car]

What prolific bloomers your bleeding hearts are! Our pink ones are still in bloom, but do not have the numbers of blossoms that yours have (I had to enlarge the photo to see your pinks.) I don't recall seeing our own white bleeding hearts, this year; but, I never remember where the bleeding hearts are planted and may have missed them.
Bachelor's buttons are a favorite, with me, because Great-grandmother Sweet always had a patch of them. It brings back memories of the 1940s and 1950s. This fall, I'll be swapping out one stand of irises (closest to the street) for the bachelor button patch that is hidden from the street by our pom pom junipers. The irises are too tall for where they are while the bachelor's buttons are too short for where they are.
Your irises are just about 30 days behind ours--not bad for the difference in latitude.
All of your plants are gorgeous. They show the attention that you've paid them. Well done!

[bogie]

The bleeding hearts are on the north side of the house and love it there. They tend to bloom throughout the season, even though they don't get any water othe than rain.

One of the bleeding hearts in that group doesn't do so well. A fern-leaf BH grows only about 6" high, blooms, then withers away until fall, when it repeats the cycle. I don't know what is up with that one, but it is dwarfed by the others so doesn't really show.

[Cop Car]

Grandmother Hall (my grandmother) had bleeding hearts on the north side of her front porch--at two different houses--the memory of which is why I plant bleeding hearts. As our house has no north side, ours are planted on the northeast side and seemingly love it. They are in nice contrast to the yews that are between them and the house foundation.

By the way: the hostas, a plant that I didn't think I even liked until you started talking them up, look fabulous this year. They are along the window well wall of our basement excape window, where I needed something short-ish.

[bogie]

Glad I could widen your horizons in the plant world!