plant varieties

First off, C finished her 72x100" quilt top today. We even cut the batting for it. We'll get the backing fabric this week and try out the long arm quilter on Sunday. If all goes well, she should have it by the time we get to the beach.

Ok, my compost is sprouting weeds. Seriously. There are little tiny weed seedlings everywhere. I spent 2 hours on Friday pulling them from the annual garden and another hour this morning finishing the annual bed and there were more from where I had pulled 2 days ago. This is going to be a real job for a bit until the flowers get big enough to shade the weeds out. I also walked around and pulled from the other front gardens where we had spread compost. The feverfew and valerian are out so the garden has gone from pink and purple crane's bill, iris, columbine, and peonies to a carpet of white. However the pinks are starting to come, and the carpet rose, shastas, and purple coneflowers are starting to bud out. I cut down the yellow coneflower this year. It blossoms later and is shorter than the 6-7' if I trim it off before July. It was lovely outdoors today, sunny, but cooler than it has been. It is so quiet on Sunday morning and I waved to at least 6 or 7 neighbors going by. This morning I was almost happy that I had weeds to pull on a Sunday morning. I suspect the notion may wear off quickly.

Feel free to skip the rest of the post. I need a place to memorialize (somewhere that I will be able to find my list next spring) what varieties of plants that I used in the vegetable and annual gardens.

My list is for the vegetable garden is:

Roma tomato - modern sauce, plants from Van Attas

Supersteak tomato- modern hybrid, plants from Van Attas

Big Boy tomato- modern hybrid, plants from MT

Oxheart tomato - heirloom from PW

Mortgage Lifter tomato - heirloom, plants from Van Attas

German Pink tomato - heirloom from seed, Seed saver

Sudduth's Brandywine tomato- heirloom from seed, Seed Saver

Dwarf Gray Sugar and another unremembered variety, edible pod, Harts seeds

Bloomsdale Longstanding spinach, Harts seeds

radishes and carrots from seed, Harts seeds

Contender and Derby bush beans, Harts seeds

Red bell peppers, plants from Keits

Green bell pepper, plants from Eastern Mkt

Garden Salsa pepper, plants from Van Attas

Potatoes from Keits

Texas red sweet onion sets from Keits

Straight Eight cucumbers, from Burpees seed

Sweet Genovese Basil, from seed, Seed Savers, planted in herb garden

Annual Bed

2 flats Ultra Pink petunias, 10-12", Keits

1 flat mixed Rocket snapdragons, 30-36", Keits

few Bella snapdragons, 20-24", Keits

.5 flat Ruffles zinnias, 30-36", East Mkt

.5 flat Vintage mix stocks, 16-18", Keits

2 flats mixed stocks, 12-36", East Mkt

.5 flat short dahlias, 10", East Mkt

2 flat short marigolds, East Mkt

1 flat tall Benary's Giant zinnias, 40-50". east Mkt

1 flat state Fair zinnias, 30-36",

cosmos from seed

bachelor's buttons from seed

Grandpa Ott's morning glories from seed, Seed Savers

sweet peas from seed

sunflowers from seed

3 cannas from tubers

7 dahlias from tubers

.5 flat Burpeeana zinnia from seed, 24", planted most in veggie bed

1 flat Cempoalxochitl marigolds, 4-5', from seed, Seed Savers, planted most in veggie bed

1 flat mixed cleome, 42-48"

1 flat Madame Butterfly snapdragons, 24-30", East Mkt

planted many double, gave some away, probably needed about 8 flats to fill 10x50' bed

Pots on back deck

asparagus fern

Pink wave petunias

Pink coleus

Pots on front porch

Boston fern, bought 1, chopped into 4 pieces.