The mounds are made in my three sister's plot and the corn planted. When the corn is 4 inches tall, I'll plant green beans that will climb the stalks, and squash that will cover the ground - or that's the plan anyway. I've read about clusters working for corn (usually requiring long rows at least three deep for pollination), but seeing this big plot of dirt in my front yard on Saturday I chuckled, thinking "Am I really trying to do this?"
I mulched the hell out of my flower-herb-tomato patch, wanting to suppress as many weeds as possible, but already this morning I spotted lots of little grass. Damn - this is going to be a battle all summer long. I finally got explicit permission from my neighbor that, yes, in fact it IS okay that I'm planting all kinds of stuff in front of his town house (his roommate had okayed me last year, and she's no longer there) and that made putting more flowers on the west side of our building even better.
Lastly, my compulsion to garden overflowed my own yard and Friday I tended the small garden in front of Nataraja, a yoga studio I frequent once or twice a week. I'd been eying the garden for about a month, thinking "It needs weeding, it needs mulch, that plant really should be cut back, who the hell thought putting mint there was a good idea . . . " Finally, on Friday, I asked if I'd be stepping on anyone's toes and then promptly got down to business, donating a couple hours and bags of mulch. I also bought a verbena plant to donate but there wasn't a good spot for it . . . so now it's in my garden. Oh darn. Along with some cuttings of lemon thyme, yarrow, and white tipped english thyme. Got to love free plants.
Below is another slideshow of recent garden pictures. Good planting to you fellow gardening folk, and good eating to the rest!
