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While April showers may bring May flowers, this past month has brought a number of gardening articles. Let's wrap this digging-the-dirt-fest up with a round up of what's being talked about on some of the garden blogs.
Flower first:
Margaret Roach of Away To Garden remembered her species peonies shares several lilac tips.
While 28 days of rain is , Molly Day's tomatoes and peppers, other plants are doing just fine:
This morning it was raining again, of course but I couldn't resist showing you the view from my desk. Last year at Blossom's Garden Center in Muskogee they had these Clematis and we put them on a trellis we had bought there the year before.
Kasmira from Cincinnati Cape Cod shares her first rose of the season: the Terese Bugnet
She’s a truly indomitable rose. She tolerates part shade and still blooms heavily. She is undaunted by late frosts, drought, and browsing deer.
Digging's Pam Penick decided at the last moment to enter Blogger's Bloom Day:
I nearly didn’t post this Bloom Day, having a lot of work on my desk that needs doing, plus a stock tank pond that needs installing. But when I went out this morning to water some new plants and recent transplants, I noticed some new May flowers and couldn’t stop myself from getting out the camera to document them.
High Altitude Gardening's Kate grew some Crazy Daisies. Are these usual blooms only because the seeds are old?
They're supposed to bloom in solid colors of pink and purple and do so after I transplant them into the garden.
Instead they're blooming early with bizarre mutant patterns. Looks as if they're heading to a Grateful Dead concert.I imagine this is all part of the rebellion.
Then Edibles:
Claire Splan loves all the plant two-fers where you can eat a seed or root and the leaves too:
Like Amaranth--you can eat the leaves and the grain. Beets--roast the roots and saute the greens. Or grapes--eat the fruit, roll the leaves up into dolmas, and by all means drink the wine!
Christa of Calendula and Concrete shares some of her Early Eats from the Garden:
The garden is spilling over with onions and garlic right now. I enjoy having both, not only for eating but also because the plants give a nice green heft to the garden in the early spring before the summer veggies get going. They make the garden look full, even when it's not quite so.
Fluffius Muppetus (aka Emma the groundskeeper) suggested in The Crunch Bunch those plants for a victory garden that will give you the most bang for your buck. Her suggestions: greens for salads and stir-fries, tomatoes, strawberries, and herbs.
The key points to remember are to choose things that you’re going to enjoy eating – otherwise you’re spending money rather than saving it! And don’t go too mad to start with. Try growing a few plants, or starting a small vegetable patch, and expand once you’ve got the hang of it. And don’t’ forget to start a compost heap, so that you can turn all of your kitchen and garden waste into free compost for next year’s garden.
And finally the esoteric:
Nickie from GirlGoneGardening shared her views on Wildlife, Wildness, and Wilderness:
I have begun to suspect that most people don't share the joy I have when I see something wild, especially if that bit of wild comes in the form of living creatures both warm and cold blooded. Especially if those creatures have the ability to shape their environment (like we do) and perhaps cause a disturbance in what most people see as order and "balance"(as if mother nature didn't have her own ways of finding ballence).
Georgia, Life On A Southern Farm, has been sharing video of the animals and advertures on her farm. My favorite just might be Jack Big Ears, the jackass.
At 4:00 sharp every afternoon Jack, Belle, Betsy, the calves, and all the goats arrive at the barn ready for their supper of mixed grains.
I was trying to get Jack to heehaw for the camera but all he could do is look at his empty trough wondering why his supper was delayed.
Yvonne Cunnington, Country Gardener, has made a new gardening resolution:
For what it's worth, I'm instituting a new rule: gardening gets done Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, weather permitting, and the rest of the week I get to have a non-gardening life. Do you think it will work out?
