Annabelle Lee - hiding out in the garden this morning, hoping the squirrels will think she has gone inside... she is ever the optimist.
My spring vegetable garden is now mostly fallow - the potatoes are all dug up (and eaten), the peas and leafy greens long gone. There is still some garlic, a few shallots. I have a few tomato plants hanging in their - Sungold, and a few others (I mostly went for plants with the most resistance to anything - and for the first time, I'm getting a few tomatoes, and about five plants are still looking good. There are peppers and eggplants too - and sweet potatoes, taking over when no one is looking.
I meant to plant green beans. And okra. A few rows of zinnias and sunflowers. It isn't too late - it is the south.
The hummingbirds have shown up. Lots of them. Dragonflies are everywhere. Butterflies here and there - I'm seeing more each day.
The rain has been good.
Some day this will work out for miss Annabelle Lee! I can just feel it. ;-)
It's too late for okra here, but I'm thinking about putting in a few beans myself. By the way, what is that velvety leaf in the foreground? (My apologies if it's something I should recognize...it's hard to see detail sometimes via this iPad mini.)
Posted by: Blackswampgirl Kim | 09 July 2013 at 09:15 PM
Actually, it worked out for Blue the very next day (and thankfully, unlike Annabelle a few years back, he didn't eat the squirrel virtually whole).
The plant in the foreground is Plectranthus "Silver Shield" which I grow as an annual here along coastal South Carolina - I got this little one late in the season (one of those 'sale' plants that I couldn't resist). I haven't had one in my garden in awhile, and I had forgotten how much I like it!
Posted by: Pam | 11 July 2013 at 04:12 PM