Wet weekends are productive

I rode Thursday and Friday nights because I knew this weekend was going to be wet.  Great rides Thursday and Friday, Thursday's shall not be named but I left from a friend's house and rode for 3 hours...Friday was Tour de Mills with Kris and Ben-Bridge>Spencer>Spencer>Lower Fletcher>Reservoir>Lower Spencer>Middle Fork>Fletcher>lower spencer>Reservoir.   Both great rides.

This weekend, I gardened a lot.  I got several starts going...all older seeds, so we'll see what happens with this $4 project (bag of starting medium).   In the trays pictured below are(L>R)  1) lavender, rudbeckia, nasturtium, and sunflowers.  2) Straight 8 Cucumbers, White Wonder Cucumbers, Hearts of Gold cantaloupe, and Black Beauty Zucchini. 3) Brandywine Tomatoes and Yellow Crookneck Summer Squash.
Each tray holds...72 seeds, so even if I only get 33% germination, I'll have plenty.

The yellow flower is a Carolina Jasmine.  I'm going to plant it on the teepee trellis in the front yard with a red honeysuckle. I hope this will be a permanent arrangement. 

Ok...garden.  This bed was double dug and planted in Pontiac Red Potatoes.  I did not take a picture of the awesome compost  that I added.  Maybe a composting arrangment will be one of my next posts.  Anyway...

On the other side of the fence is another bed of potatoes.  To the green pole...

Onions from the green pole to the different straw/ plants...

Which are broccoli and napa cabbage.  They will have to be covered at night for the next week.

Garlic next to broccoli/napa is looking awesome.

Here's the lettuce inside of the cold frame.  Soda can is for perspective.

In the four-way bed, here's lettuce babies...

There are spinach and arugula babies in this photo.

The first pea sprout is glared out next to the soaker hose.

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Garden shot.  Peas are under my folky-trellis.  Scrap rules!  There are two beds on each side of the cold frame with crimson clover on them.

On to the front garden...I weeded this a lot over the weekend.  The daffodils still look nice!

Weeded and mulched these day lilies.  Shovels are for perspective.

Irises are coming in nice.  The shorter ones if the foreground were saved from the crazy neighbors.

Finally, here's some really cute pictures of Macy and Phoebe.  Great weekend!