raining again

 
 
Raining again. I don’t think I’ll take soggy garden photos today. I’ll wait for the next posting until its sunny. The Boston Globe writes today that more than 18 inches of rain have fallen in May and June and if it were all snow it would be 180 inches! (My math expert – my son – calculated that is 15 feet.) They say we have a trapped jet stream. Everyone’s tired of all this rain.
 
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bird update

 
 
News on the nesting birds in my parents yard: the catbird, robin, chickadee and wren are all still sitting dutifully on their eggs.
 
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seedlings in the rain

 
 
Here are pictures of my vegetable seedlings: basil, beets, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, peas, scallions, squash and tomatoes. (I forgot to photograph the eggplants.) It is another wet day and the seedlings are all looking soggy and ragged. I think the basil is having the hardest time and I’ve already lost a couple plants. Clearing is not predicted until later next week with more heavy rains coming tomorrow.
 
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goldflame honeysuckle

 
 
I’ve been out taking pictures in the rain again. Good thing the camera is waterproof. The flower is Goldflame Honeysuckle (Lonicera x heckrottii).
 
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my pea trellis is up

 
 
A garden gnome must have come by overnight and put up my pea trellis for me! Wow! (It was my husband.) But it was me who planted the squash and cucumbers this morning. I went ahead and hilled them this year, though I usually don’t. Its been so wet that I think they will prefer this.
 
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clover

 
 
Can you find any four-leaved ones? I wish this clover was in my yard, but it’s at a nearby park where Skippy and I went for a walk.
 
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yellow flag iris

 
 
These are beautiful Yellow Flag Iris (Iris pseudacorus) growing in a nearby wet-land. Unlike the Blue Flag Iris, which is native to the U.S. northeast, I. pseudacorus is a non-native, invasive plant. It is fast-growing and fast-spreading and can out compete other wetland plants, forming almost impenetrable thickets. http://aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu/seagrant/iripse2.html
 
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blue flag iris

 
 
My sister gave me these Blue Flag Iris (Iris versicolor) from her garden about 14 years ago. They grow in the full sun on the south side of my house. They have formed two large clumps that Skippy likes to flatten down into a comfy sleeping mat.
 
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Memorial Day bird nests with eggs

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More photos from my parents’ yard. The catbird nest is in a hemlock bush right near their back door. It has four bright blue eggs. Mrs. Catbird didn’t mind the photos I took and was quickly back on her nest.
 
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Kathy Martin
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy


weeks and counting until my last spring frost

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thyme, lettuce, escarole

Feb 21
celery, celeriac, parsley, leeks

March 11
cabbage, kale, arugula



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peppers, eggplants, marigolds, beets

April 12
tomatoes, basil, sunflowers

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