All victory gardens should include flowers!

I think this captures the weekend the best...glorious yellow sunshine, well, a "Lady Banks" rose. 

So much happening in the garden:

*Planted out most of the tomatoes.
*Planted my sweet potatoes in containers.  They look rather sad.
*Still hilling up the potatoes.
* Assembled one huggelkultur.  Tomorrow I'll plant the winter squash I've started indoors. 
*Weeded my asparagus bed.  I found one teeny-tiny stalk coming up.  It's the first year for this bed so it won't be harvested. 
*Figured out where  to put the lavender and two rosemary plants that need a home.
*Observed a lot of bees working in the garden.   Hoping that there are enough flowers blooming to keep them happy! 

The to-do list is even longer unfortunately.   More weeds to pull, more seeds to plant (cucumbers, beans, and summer squash), and some mulching to do.  I have a stash of cardboard I'm going to put around the blueberries. 

Something else that is making me very happy in the garden:

I've waited four years for my tree peony to bloom.  Here's the first blossom.

Comments

[university place flowers]

it must have been a glorious weekend.

[Melinda]

Beautiful flowers! I completely agree. Victory gardens need flowers - not only for the bees, but for the gardener's soul. I've been wanting to plant sweet potatoes... I'm so interested in how yours do. I don't even know how to grow them - do they grow like potatoes?

[cheryl finley]

Hi! Oh my...your garden is beautiful! And peonies are my favorite! We had bushes of them in the backyard of my childhood home. I remember the ants that come with them, and their crucial role in them blooming. Isn't Nature awesome!

Have a wondrous day!