A clever weekly state of the garden memo is current on what is scheduled to be grown, what’s been planted and its progress, what is close to prime time and eventually…what will be in short supply.
The summer flower of the week is the sunflower. The Allison has several flowers blooming in the pollinator meadow and garden. It is interesting to see how many different bees visit these flowers rich in pollen and nectar. Later, lots of birds will visit the flowers for the seeds.
The goldenrod is particularly stunning this year. The gardeners planted it several years ago in their quest to provide more food for pollinators.
Summer is upon us! The first of the summer blooms of the dahlias and crocosmia have made their presence known. Every week the gardeners find different flowers blooming in the pollinator meadow, so come on out to the garden to see what else you can find. See you in the garden!
The first flowers are blooming in the pollinator meadow south of the chef’s garden. So far, the garden has California poppies, lupines, and the pictured flower, which is toadflax. The gardeners will attempt to identify all the flowers throughout the summer to keep themselves sharp!
This past week the gardeners started harvesting the snap peas. So far, the weather has been very favorable for pea production.
The garden has transformed during the last two weeks. The Allison Gardeners have been planting, planting, planting. Now comes the weeding, weeding, weeding part of the summer.
Instead of March Madness, gardeners participate in May Madness when they scramble to get the summer crops in the ground. Once planted, the gardeners will have to drag hoses around or fix the drip irrigation system, which was dismantled for the winter.
The camas, which the gardeners started from bulbs last spring, are blooming! They spent the summer in pots while the gardeners waged war on the weeds in the area where they are now planted.
There’s nothing like a few days of sunshine to bring on all the flowers in the garden. The gardeners are finished harvesting the purple-sprouting broccoli. The bees love the pollen and nectar provided by these flowers.
The gardeners have been scrambling this past week trying to cram months of weather-delayed tasks into one short week.