Upson Downs

 

Things seem to finally be getting going, although everything seems to be slightly smaller than they could be. At least there's starting to be some colour. The violets (that I thought were going to be forget-me-nots) are showing my University of Washington Husky Pride, and are also just adorable. One of the nasturtiums is also starting to bloom, and the others are showing signs of buds. Progress!

If you squint, you can see it kind of in the middle, there

The replacement peas and replacement haricots verts are coming along. There are even - rather suddenly - proto-peas on the older vines! I am a-squee.

I'm gonna have peeeeeeeeeeeeeeas!

Will we have another year of Runty Mr. Bean? Stay tuned...

Lots of other flowers on the go, as well - the borage is about to burst and the potatoes are having a good show as well.

This was a good foot taller, last year, but this feels somehow more sensible.

They really are quite pretty!

Even the lavender is making a run for it, after doing nothing but getting bigger, last year. I just wish the foxes would quit using it as their superhighway - it's getting a bit flat.

So close to flowers! So close!

I'm hoping the sunflowers will have a growth spurt, but what do I know? I've never grown them before, so I have no idea what their MO is. 

Please ignore the weeds. Also, exuberant carrot is exuberant.

I took advantage of it being warm and not rain (as opposed to the warm and rain that was predicted) to right some wrongs of previous Chupacabrae incursions. This included replanting the lettuce, starting the columbine over again, planting thee more sunflowers (of a different variety) to replace the cornflower that doesn't seem to be getting its poop in a group, planting two types of nigella, ripping out the bolted and dead parsley and planting some new parsley (a free pack of seeds that came with the flowers), and cutting back the salad burnet so it can rejuvenate. Farmer Goth also drilled holes in the new, larger lettuce trough, but I only had enough compost to fill it half-way, so I'll wait for an infusion before planting more lettuces. This will give us a good rotation anyway. 

The Good King Henry turns out to be not that great - this is the second year of trying and the second year of SFA. It's disappointing, but I can use that half of the crate to plant more rocket, or something. 

Meanwhile, we had a pork pie and lemonade for lunch at the garden table, and it almost felt like real Summer.

I mean...it's midsommar somewhere.