Re: Your Rosemary plant - put it in the sunniest spot possible...the more hours the better...and go easy on the water...but don’t ever let it completely dry out. 10-10-10 for fertilizer a few times this summer. Got that? LOL!
We’ve had a nice growing season here in southern WI. May was really cold, but June is making up for it. We’re having rain right on time once a week. The days are sunny when they need to be and overcast when they need to be.
Yesterday I had the day at ‘home.’ I’m in the middle of selling my little farm, and I now consider my ‘home’ out here on the BIG farm...160 acres, with Beau. :)
I got the entire ‘temporary’ veggie garden weeded and mulched with MOUNDS of hay. Man, I love how that snuffs out the weeds! And I got the house yard mowed (I also consider THAT chore, ‘gardening’) and since Beau pulled out the butt-ugly Barberry shrubs across the front, I now have a Blank Canvas that needs filling. The house is REALLY TALL in the front, so of course it BEGS for a climbing rose...but, well...I gotta think on this!
We’ve been enjoying salads of lettuces, kale and radishes this week and everything I’ve planted looks fan-tastic and the Beagle (Chief) is keeping the rabbits out of the garden, so even without fencing, there has been no critter nibbling.
Good Dog!
Your former employer had some gorgeous climbing roses in their online catalog this past spring. I had to restrain the ‘buy now’ impulse by reminding myself if they were happy in WI they’d be VERY unhappy in my backyard.
Your greens sound delicious. We passed salad season about a month ago. I am thinking of growing some baby lettuces in a box of some sort on my countertop under the undercounter flourescents though. Haven’t gotten around to doing more than thinking of that right now though.
Thanks for the tip on Rosemary. I was thinking it might need shade. LOL
This will be my first year without a dog. I hope the bushy tailed rodents don’t get my maters.
Good to have all that land. We had twenty acres and plans to build, but then stuff happened and we couldn’t do it, so we just started planting stuff here. We have a couple of lots behind us that are empty, so somewhere down the line, we might be able to nab an acre or two to add to our current little one-acre mini farm.