Friday after Memorial Day

On the morrow we shall see the turn of another month - from May to June. The beautiful spring-time greens and pastel blossoms will be giving way to even deeper fuller greens, garden phlox's and Queen Ann's lace, and the blooms of Hamburg Township's famous day-lilies.

Our mid-latitudes winter was long and cold, and it has been good this past month to be out working in the yard planting, feeding, nurturing.

Our herbs have taken well and are filling in our wash-tub container with fragrant greenery. The annuals are for the most part bursting with color and filling in their respective places around the house. The vegetables in the ground are slower this spring, but we will not lose hope: red and yellow cherry tomatoes, a beefstake hybrid, Anaheim, jalapeno, and sweet red bell peppers.

The cucumbers in their own box show the most umption early - inches of growth daily. (kind of like the moon at night. if you stare at it, it doesn't seem like it's moving. but if you look at it, go away for a couple minutes and then look at it, you can surely tell it moved. so it is with the growth of the cucumber plant)

The lawn is green and lush (much rain we have had in the past 21 days), and the weed-whip has been working furiously to give the margins that well-groomed look.  Mr Cat-mint is competing with Mr Hosta again for the largest-single-plant-in-the-garden award.