Gardening: Flower Garden From Seed--Update

That little patch of our backyard where Thora and I weeded, loosened the soil and planted some seeds is showing promise! Along the wooden posts, you can see the beginnings of morning glories. Hopefully these will use the posts as support and hide the deck's unattractive underbelly. And further out, those rounded leaves are the nasturtium plants.



And today, we started another little from-seed flower garden, this time in containers. Weeks ago, we'd started sunflowers from seed inside with this Sesame Street kit.


And here they are in their new home in full sun next to the vegetable container garden:



Seeing the promise of the nasturtiums coming up out of the ground, I picked up another couple packets of seeds, hoping to grow some in pots to place around the container garden, or to place on our steps going up to our front door. Here they are next to the sunflower seedlings, the beginning of that project:



Here is what the vegetable garden is looking like, this first week of June.


We've had a ton of rain, but also a ton of sunshine. Things seem to thriving. The brandywine tomato plant is very tall. The cucumbers (in the near left corner) are lush. The herbs are hardy. And we may be close to our first yellow cherry tomato harvest.

Particularly thriving are the peas. They are just stretching right up the fence behind them.


I love the creamy pale yellow flowers.