Sunday, June 2, 2013

June Blooms

Normally we have June Gloom in Western Washington, but so far June has started out better than we are used to it starting out. This weekend was mostly cloudy weather, but we definitely saw some sun -- and the temperature reached about 70 degrees. Saturday was better than Sunday, but both days were nice and quite enjoyable.

Here are some shots of Kristina's tomato plants. She has two different types, but one of them had two tiny little tomatoes. She was so excited. 

 

Here's a shot of her container with the tomato plants on the ends -- romaine popping up in the middle. She did romaine last summer, and it was so nice to go out and grab a chunk of it for dinner. We hope to repeat that this summer. And so far, it is looking good. It has grown at least an inch since she planted the starts!


This is her basil. She started this from seed inside. She does this every year and normally we have a good crop of basil for cooking. The leaves weren't as large as she would like (sign of a lack of sun), so she transferred them outside this weekend. Grow basil grow! 


The mint survived the winter and is coming up again. We use lots of mint for iced tea over the summer.  You could also use it for some Mojitos too! Hmmmm....


This is the herb container. Kristina has planted sage, parsley, and thyme. It is all doing just great. She rotated the container this weekend to even out the sun exposure. The parsley was already starting to LEAN


Whenever the sun is out, you always want to take full advantage of it. We decided to plant a few more things. So after a trip to Molbak's, this is how things looked. We planted some Foxglove and Lupine. Both plants add a lot of color, and the bees LOVE them.


 

This is a container that Kristina planted last spring. As you can see the Hostas are going crazy! We might have to move the other plants in the container so the Hostas can take over; the Hostas are shading the other plants.


And lastly, this is Kristina's latest container. It has a bunch of different plants in it. We went to the Woodinville Garden Club's annual sale a couple of weeks ago and bought an assortment. We can't wait to see how they look as the summer continues.