Gardening

.... perhaps I should grow rice next year.... although usually it isn't so wet up here. We'll see what next year brings, I guess.

Meantime, picked lettuces, also turns out some of the wax beans were ready, yay! Also more blueberries. I even picked my FIL's bush and brought his in for him. The blueberries from our bushes did not make it into the house... ;)

Picked more black raspberries a couple of days ago :)

The corn and tomatoes need more sun.

The oats are surviving (so far).

There are squash bug eggs on the squash leaves. We have to watch for when they hatch and then spray them :( I'm not crazy about that, but apparently the best time to eliminate these marauders (and there are a _lot_ of eggs), is in their nymph mode. Hopefully this will happen soon, since we're going on vacation next week... The Japanese beetles are also evil, but L and I have been working on that...

The three big plants Doris and I bought for helping spruce things up for the family reunion next month went in yesterday - Sea Holly (Eryngia), Rudbeckia, and Echinacea. Today I put a Threadleaf Coreopsis (lacy with yellow flowers) into the center of a hanging pot and then edged it with Creeping Speedwell (Veronica). If I have time before we go away, I'll do some more weeding around the house too, to help out with spiffying the place up.

I also have some Lambs' Ear and Bronze Fennel to put in the herb garden :)

I've fallen rather horribly behind in weeding some parts of the veggie and herb gardens, with all the rain, sigh. I don't mind a few weeds, but the grass that spreads out in a big circle is annoying.