The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This week it rained. And rained, and rained, and rained. And then, all of the sudden, on Thursday, the skies parted and the sun shined through. But I won’t knock the rain. No, I agree with Longfellow, metaphorically and literally, when it’s raining, we just need to accept that it’s raining. Besides, when not overdone, rain is a good thing.
Here’s what’s growing in my garden this week:
sunflower seedlings making their way (on my kitchen counter),
a tomato seedling pushing on through,
a shot of the seedlings, huddled all together,
salvia, growing taller, day by day, in a planter on my back deck,
asylum, so bright and beautiful in a found planter (I gave it some love and a coat of paint this week so that I could add more color to our back deck),
hostas, hostas,
peas (Abbie, should I thin them?),
spinach (Abbie, I suspect it needs more thinning, huh?),
hostas, hostas,
hosta,
recovering stone crop (remember I mentioned how it was stomped on by the cement men?),
phlox,
and petunias.
Next week, I’m hoping to seed outside and dig out yet another garden bed. I’m just loving this whole gardening gig. Loving it up. Another friend who happens to be pregnant says that the need to nurture is just natural in pregnancy. You know, I’m kind of thinking she’s right about that.
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Hi, I can’t understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please :)
Thanks Green Mama it’s working now :)
Abbie, thank you! I so depend on my gardening buddies to help me out, :-)
Aisling, thanks for getting me going with sharing my little piece of earth for the Sunday Stroll posts. I’m glad to meet other gardeners and learn from them too.
Ruth, yes the rain has turned our neighborhood to a lime green color over night (or over the week that I was away). The only problem I’ve run into is a bit of diseased liriope from an excess of rain (a bacteria or fungus, I think).
Sunnymama, I hope I fixed whatever was causing the technical gliche.
Robin, I simply used the small starter containers that my pansies came in to start my sunflower and tomato seedlings. I placed them on a wicker platter that I found at the Goodwill and them set them beside a sunny window while the weather was cool. Now they’re outside and growing into sturdy small plants (time to transfer them to my garden soon).
Oh, and my found planter was a gift from a neighbor who needed to part with it. Glad that I’m letting my fondness for plants be known, :-)
Lisa, I’m looking forward to stopping by your garden (will you post about it at your blog?).
Thank you again to everyone who’s stopped over to comment. As always, I am encouraged and inspired to keep gardening and writing away over here at Green Mamma.
Beautiful! I have been gardening today and for awhile now. Trying to get the yard all pretty again and planting my first veggie garden. :)
can you tell i can’t type today? the first question was for info on your found planter! ;)
i had the same problem with the feedburner issue when i was trying to add you from blogger. fwiw.
i am totally inspired by your garden. can you tell me what your found plater? can you tell me if there is one easy place you liked to learn about starting things inside? do the starting plants need a lot of sun? can you tell i am totally lost here?
all i know is the only thing i have growing here is the forsythia i inherited with the house and this house needs more love. prior to us the outside was totally let go. we need some flowers! help me!
I love the rain quote you started with, and I’m really enjoying seeing your seedlings growing. I’m inspired by your passion for your garden.
Also, I added a Blogroll of Inspiring Mama Blogs to my blog and would love to add Green Mama but can’t seem to do it. (Actually I’ve been trying to follow too but haven’t been able to do that either.) Everytime I try to add the URL I end up with Feedburner for Green Mama. Do you happen to know if there’s another way I can add you to my blog roll (and follow your blog)?
Your garden is certainly fertile! You are SUCH the nurturer—in every way! You are SO right in that rain is a good thing, the water that keeps everything going . . .
Yum! I love fresh peas! Everything looks so promising — all those green little sprouts. Your phlox are brilliant! This truly is the best time of year!
Things are looking good out your way! I love that variety of phlox!
I’m with Abbie, let the spinach get just a bit bigger and then eat the thinnings as baby spinach. Yum!
Thanks for sharing your corner of the world again!
Haha! No, don’t think the peas but they may need something to climb up.
And yes… the spinach looks way too crowded. Bite the bullet and pull them up :) Or, let them keep growing until they have a few leaves and eat them as baby spinach.