Plant Lover Diaries: New Home / New Garden = BIG MESS........

Southern Maryland

So we moved in June and I had to half my indoor plants. Found a lady on Craigslist who was looking for some and I was able to keep the baby plants which are much smaller for the move. Sad but I'll be able to grow them back to there full size quickly.

Right, Southern MD.

- Hot,
-longer planting season,
-didn't move till june,
-late start on gardening for me, Shit.

******** So to start this off Im going to show the plants you remember from earlier blogs and show you what I've done here. The new plants that are introduced I'll do specific blogs on in the near future.

This guy of course made it my Jade, but one of my dogs did decide to take a branch off. He like to prune for me.

My baby Rose Mary has gotten much bigger and repotted!

The lemon tree i started from seed, well i started two and kept the smallest one. It loves this warm humid place, as you can see.

My lovely husband made two raised beds for me. This is the first and larger one, it has hot and bell peppers in it. As well as some bee balm.

Second one has borage and other herb that are coming up slowly. Lettuce to the left is not doing so well due to the rain coming down hard on it. We've got to put up a gutter on the shed that this raised bed is up against.

Closer view. Borage and lettuce.

side view

Weird little bug.

On my honey suckle vine.

Had to move it to a better spot that this in the pic. It wasn't doing very well, not enough sun. It started getting powdery mildew on its leaves.

The Mess

So this area is huge like 20 rows and I'm the only one using it. My land lady used one row beside mine, so two rows are being used out of 20ish. Its a bad idea. I won't be using it next year. Its a bit to much. But I started it in june before we moved when I visited, to get the plants in the ground. I started the seedlings in march not knowing where we were moving and I was board.

Unfortunately this was the only place I could get them planted quickly so they wouldn't die. But at least I'll be able to collect seed for next year and its still fun to watch them grow. Also I'll get lots of tomatoes out of it. Also its tick infested.

So whats in there you ask?

sunflower

nasturtium

tomatos

hot pepper

borage

beans

All of that equals companion planting. This usually works for me but with so much area around it not being maintained and it being tick infested, it was just a bad area for me to choose. Lesson learned. Seeds will be collected and a new smaller area is being prepared now, for next year.

Next years area! Smaller, closers to the house = Ya! Soil needs some work so thats what I'll be working on. Every area you will see from here on out was covered in english ivy, and when i say covered I mean COVERED! Lots of work has been done. The devil made english ivy. Any way- Right now i have tomatoes that are staked as you can see. Also theres.....

In case you were wondering.

A smaller version of black eye suzys.

The staked tomatoes.

This is my Faire garden in progress (area was also covered in english ivy hell, i have to insist on telling you. The shit is hell in a vine.)

Front view. More pots of chocolate mint, lemon balm and basile. I have petunias, four o clock, morning glories and the rose bush.

Russian Sage

More petunias I moved the comfy the the place where I have the tomatoes staked, so it would have more space.

Another area next to the cottage. Coneflower, bee balm, cat nip, lemon balm, bleeding hart, tyme that need to be moved and zinnias, sage also need to be moved.