Life is a Garden Party

Monday, May 22, 2017

At Rainbow's End 5/22/17

Got out the tools to do more edging today, but first raked over the vegetable garden plot.
Ended up transplanting freebies.  Never did get to the edging.

 Can't wait to have new potato salad with fresh dill!  I think red potatoes make the best potato salad.

Vegetable garden plot green with dill and borage that has self-seeded for many years.
Will provide nutrition when the soil is plowed this weekend.
I allow the borage to grow at will as it attracts bees.  Love to listen to their symphony.

 Transplanted a couple dozen fingerling potatoes that sprouted from last year's crop.

Too many to count sunflowers were transplanted to new locations.
Will need to spray to keep deer at bay.  To think of the miracle within just one seed.
For it to sprout and grow 6+ feet tall, produce a flower head for bees to pollinate,
and hundreds of seeds for visiting feathered friends.  Our God is an awesome God!

Also found nastursums to transplant.  I don't care for their peppery flavor but will use their blossoms to decorate with.

Raked off two 2-cubit potting soil bags of gravel.  I think it snowed gravel on the vegetable garden this winter?  Or the wind blew topsoil away.

Look who entertained me while I was raking this afternoon:
This is the male, with the red stripe on his face.  He was bobbing away so the photo is blurry.  And was he ever squawky.  Like to think saying a prayer of thanks for his free fare.

Look what I'll be harvesting this week:  Lettuce and spinach.


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