This is the area that gets the MOST SUN during the day.
This awful picture perfectly illustrates why I’m frustrated with the sun exposure on my property. I need to make the driveway garden wider and lose even more of this poor excuse for a lawn. This area and my entire keyhole garden is shaded until 11am!
I planted a couple of watermelon seedlings in there 2 days ago. We’ll see how well they produce with so much shade. The squash in the low garden to the right of it get much more sun. They should do fine if I can keep the borers away.
Yesterday I planted some more bush beans in the front and back yard and put some nasturtium seeds in the garden too. I hope they come up sooner this year than last year.
Today I put some purple tansy seeds directly in the garden around my started squash and zucchini plants. I hope these will help repel the borers that have taken down my zucchini plants for the past 2 years.
The naturalized lily of the valley corner of the back yard
I planted the rest of the Siberian iris that I divided from Aunt Kathy’s garden in the back yard next to the lily of the valley. I also added some borage seeds down in front in what looks like empty dirt at the bottom of the picture. This was an accidental garden bed on my part.
Almost 1/3 of the back yard used to be a tangled mess of ivy when we moved in. I yanked most of the ivy out, but left a section of the tangled mess because I got tired of doing it. I guess I killed enough of the strangling ivy that the lily of the valley that were struggling underneath were able to spring up and take their place.
I’ve taken very little time to weed around it. I’ve moved some of it out and tried to rescue some of the pachysandra that can’t keep up with the lily of the valley and are starting to become overwhelmed.
Other than that, I simply mow around it and it seems to be thriving! Easiest garden ever. hahaha.
