The tomato plants seem to be waiting for warm sunny weather, but some of the plants, like the nasturtiums above are doing great. After the fog burned off this morning I decided to go out and get some pictures while there was sunshine. There are three or four nasturtium plants in that bed, volunteers from one plant last year. I added the decorative white wire edging after the sidewalk construction was completed.
The peppers seem to be producing fruit sooner than the tomatoes. I put one bell pepper plant in the flower bed and this one in a pot on the back deck. I harvested a very nice one from the plant out front. Looks like there are two that will be ready soon on this plant on the deck. Peppers are a vegetable that looks good planted in a flower bed. The glossy green leaves and white flowers are a nice effect. I am also using leaf lettuce instead of plants like coleus. I harvested quite a bit of lettuce this year and left three or four plants go to seed.
The winter before last I just took a New Guinea impatiens plant in and it withered and died. This one and the geranium provided a bright spot of color all winter under the fluorescent grow light fixture I set up. It stopped blooming when I moved it outdoors to the back deck. This is the first blossom since I repotted it.
This is one of two pots of snapdragon plants that I didn’t have room to plant last summer and took in over the winter. The ones that were growing in the ground got a few blossoms just before the frost got them. These got spindly, but took off great once in the ground this spring. I have more started and plan to keep them in pots over the winter again.
I also kept a pot of lobelia over winter that took a while to get going in the ground but is covered with flowers now.
My yard is quite shady, so until this year didn’t even try to grow petunias. My mom had some Wave petunias in a hanging basket a couple years ago, so bought a six-pack of plants and made one for her. Of the three in her basket, one was red, one light purple, and one light purple with a white center and a ruffled edge. The ones I potted separately turned out to be pink, white, and deep purple. They are all growing, but the deep purple one seems to be stunted and the blossoms don’t fully open. I planted the pink one out front to fill an empty spot from the sidewalk project excavation.
