~the garden, complete with Pointer~

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.

Comments

[Blackswampgirl Kim]

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.)

[Pam]

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!