The yard garden has been underway for a month, the gnomes are on duty, and things are starting to grow!
Meet the yard
The east section is on my concrete slab patio. The strip along the fence, including the containers shown, gets full sun most of the day. still need to install a few more plants and my soaker hose.
The west section is a cozy corner that gets full sun along one fence and part of the other. Peas, cucumbers, tomatoes, and a cosmos plant are in. A little bird bath and all of the plants are served by sprinklers.
The center section gets full sun along the fence and also has my new hose spigot and power outlet. The main plan is to grow pole beans as tall as possible with some sidekick plants. All watered by sprinklers.
The green stalk houses herbs, flowers, carrots, spinach, and assorted other homeless plants. Bush beans are suspiciously dormant. plan is to install a feeder hose into the top on a timer.
The shady corner gets no direct sun but does get hit by the sprinkler. I’ve bought several part shade plants that I still need to pot to try out over here. Creeping Jenny is my resident ground cover that keeps the yard from getting too muddy, and occasionally has little yellow flowers. Also used by squirrels to build a nest last year.
Plant highlights
Because I wasn’t able to start plants from seed this year (except for tomatoes), I get to enjoy lots of early blooms. Current all star is the portulaca which seems to have new blooms every day. It wasn’t on my radar until my friend in Utah was growing some. I haven’t grown it for a while but it’s very festive, fast growing, and pretty hardy.
More pretty plants.
Harvest
In May my garden produced:
- 2 absolutely delicious strawberries.
ROAD TRIP 
Goodmorning Liz, your yard looks busy, or rather that you’ve been busy. Looks great and you are all hooked up with irrigation!👍🏼
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I’ll be interested to know how growing carrots and beets in pots goes. I’ve grown tomatoes in large patio pots with some success, also bush beans and sweet peppers in a small raised bed.
Your organization and systems look great, send me a progress report.
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My ” new” yard could use your organization and assistance, all summer.
it’s quite shady, several very large oak trees, plus others. Not much lawn, lots of ground covers and several interesting native flowers. I’m in the discovery phase, have not planted any veggies yet, but have added a few shady annuals in the brick “flower box” in front. Also brought one peony plant which is doing well so far. And another perennial which seems to be growing.
keep me posted as your gardens progress! Love, sharon
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Hope to inspect your garden in person soon!
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