I grabbed these 4 hydrangeas and 1 abelia for free from ace hardware, just as they were about to throw them out. 🥰 I think with a litte TLC they will bounce back just fine.

I have been forgetting to update on here, going to try to get more pictures of what is blooming/growing in the garden soon! All my early seeds I started indoors didn't do well after being set out. Thankfully they were mostly fast growing leafy greens I was able to direct sow quickly. We picked greens for quite a while before pulling them for hot weather crops. I also was able to dehydrate and powder a good mix of greens to add to smoothies!


Tomatoes are looking pretty good, but for some reason peppers are growing very slowly...I haven't had this problem before so I'm not sure what's wrong. :/

A fun surprise earlier in the season was pumpkin plants popping up in a few different spots. Last fall after my sons were finished with their Halloween pumpkins, they smashed them in the garden. And now we have volunteers everywhere, with little pumpkins starting to grow now! We've tried growing pumpkins before with no success, so maybe this will be the method we use from now on. 😂

Today I started tomatoes (black cherry, big rainbow, and Cherokee purple), peppers (jalapeño, serrano, Hungarian hot and giant sweet bell), onions, leeks, broccoli, lemongrass, calendula, borage and basil seeds. My husband and boys got the chicken coop fixed up, and we are hoping to get a few more hens next week. :)

Some seeds I've gotten started so far. Lettuce, kale and onions. Sadly my cabbage isn't looking great, not sure what is going on with them. :( Oh well, I'll try getting a few more started this week! I also have trays of various flowers, peas and more onions that I just sowed last week. So excited to see everything starting to grow! :)