Welcome to May Dreams Gardens, home of the purple bench. See it back there in the vegetable garden?Before I painted it purple, it looked like this.
It was a pretty color of cream but the paint was starting to flake off on the seat (ha ha, "pretty color of cream", that's an attempt at dry humor which doesn't always come across well in writing.)And here's a close up of the bench right after we got some rain early Saturday evening.
Does everyone like the new color? It's kind of bright, but I think I'll keep it like this.Behind the bench are the green beans which I have covered with row covering, because May Dreams Gardens is also home to ravenous rabbits who would eat my green bean plants down to the ground without a second thought if they could get to them.
In other news around here:
I harvested more peas this evening, dodging a few rain drops in the process. As I noted before, the row is only eight feet long, so I don't get a lot of pods with each picking, just a good sized serving, so there isn't much to share. I think I'll get one, maybe two more pickings. Perhaps I'll try some fall peas? Anyone have any tips to share on planting peas for a fall harvest? I'm guessing I would need to plant them ten weeks before the first threat of real frost, which would mean planting by mid-July. Is there a variety that is good for fall planting? Or would it be a foolish waste of seed?
I checked in on my second garden twice this past weekend and everything is coming up just fine. Over at that garden, there are very few weeds, so I don't think I'll have to do much hoeing around the corn, beans and squash. Here in my raised bed garden I have purslane sprouting everywhere so even though I weeded it all on Saturday, it could stand to be weeded again today.
A few more bloggers have joined in on the Garden Bloggers' Book Club and posted their reviews on the book, Passalong Plants, or written about their own experience with passalong plants. So you might want to go back to that post and check them out.
We are getting some rain, finally, which is welcome and needed. We could use a lot more but its a good start.
Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day is coming up again on the 15th of the month. I'm starting to watch more closely in the garden to see what is blooming and budding in anticipation of what might make a good showing on the 15th. More later on how to participate in this if you are new around here.
That's some of what's going on here at May Dreams Gardens, home of the purple bench and ravenous rabbits. What's new in your garden?
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I love purple. Three of my garden chairs are painted bright purple the rest are bright blue and red.
Peas: I never seem to get enough to make a meal. I don't know how my mother would get not just enough for an entire meal for the family but enough to freeze for the winter. Oh, wait, I do. I think she had about a 50 foot row. Maybe more. Sugar snap peas are much better that way because you can eat the whole thing, but they just don't taste like the real thing!
I don't know much about peas but I always plant them too late (sugar snap), don't get too many, but eat them standing at the vine so I don't care if I have enough for dinner!
Good job on the purple bench, much better than when it was cream!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
I am looking forward to garden bloom day and have every intention of participating this time. God willing and the creeks don't rise.
When I plant autumn peas, and autumn brassicas, the wisdom around here is get them into the ground by Bastille Day (July 14). This may have been true ten years ago, I find that it is still awfully hot for them then. However, planting them around the first of August and utilizing a row cover to help keep them cool seems to work. I just use the same kind of peas I used in the spring. This year I planted Sugar Sprint, 32 row feet. We have had them for dinner four or five times, and I have two gallons frozen. It helps that peas are not the only things available to eat out of the garden, and that they are sugar snap. The regular kind of peas I treat like garden candy. They never make it into the house at all. Well, so I'm lying a little about that. last year I had enough of them to make meals of three times. None to freeze.
I remember seeing an article in one of my garden magazines (a few years ago) about a lady who painted all of her garden accessories in purple.
One year I did all my old watering cans in that color.
It certainly will brighten any spot you put it in.
Glad to hear you got some rain.
Carol
Can't wait to see your colour choice for the trellis towers.
I have a purple bench myself - it adds color to the long winter days and makes me long for the spring. I've added a few more pictures to my gardend beyond the arbor. I've been gardening for the last 5 years and am addicted. Thank goodness my husband keeps the house clean while I spend the entire day in the yard.
Carol at May Dreams Gardens