So, Don't do this..

I had some little black bugs living on most of my plants so I googled this "natural Recipe" where you spray vegetable oil, soap & water onto the leaves and it gets rid of the pests ...

well ! it did work .. i don't see any more bugs but..

it seemed to have "cooked" the leaves of my plants. Now they are all burnt and sad looking. I will have to go prune tons of leaves off..

I later read to do this in the evening or you will ruin even more of your leaves.. whoooops.

hmf.

Cucumbers Died

So my patio, marketmore, and burpless all died within 2 days of each other..
They all turned into a ball of mush. I even replaced the patio ones twice and the new ones died the same way a day later..

some form of disease.

Now to go shopping for some new ones!

under my umbrella...

It has seriously rained the last 10 days.. so today we had a FEW hours of sun inbetween storms and I ran out and took pictures. You can tell the things like like cool, wet conditions and the ones that don't. :)

here are the new dahlias.

Far shot of the potatoes, Dill, Dwarf sunflowers, Birdseed Sunflowers & Herb basket

3rd Box. Top row L to R is Peas, celery & peas again.
Middle row is Iceberg lettuce and mesclun and Bottom row is all carrots.

pots. Top is Patio pickles, lower is Marketplace & Burpless in the purple container. Rosemary and onions.middle box is exactly the same as 3rd box exept the middle square has radishes. Which are very happy!

marigolds at top. 3 tomato plants & impatiens at the bottom.

1st box. Exactly the same as the 3rd box.

Here is the celery. Didn't notice how much it grew until compairing the pictures.

Dill is recovering. Starting to get its weird little seed flower things.

Don't know if you can see it.. but there is 2 small green leaves coming from the thyme section of my herb basket.

Dwarf Sunflowers

close-up of 2 cucumbers. The leaves are a little ticked because they were in the muddy soil - they will soon be getting staked/ trellised.

Radishes and celery. Happiest vegi's ever!

oregon spring tomato
Beefstake.

and the patio tomato.

closeup of snap peas.

igloo lettuce.
carrots.

this mesclun mix is even getting different colors already.

Additions!

So I killed my cucumber plants. They were SO tiny.. I'm sure they were only a few weeks old & I should have known they weren't ready to be outside .. anywho, Their leaves got burnt and then they died. So I Bought new ones! Burpee brand ( which is my favorite brand )

This is a "pickalot hybrid" pickle type
I still have 2 little marketmore cuc's that might make it.. beside them is a sweet burpless cucumber (3x bigger one )

So I felt soo bad I wasn't growing a beefsteak... when I saw this healthy guy I just had to get him.

This is my rescue dill. I'm trying to Revive it.

and THIS IS A RADISH seedling!!! So exciting!

Wow, Long time nooooo news. Well I did ALL my gardening this weekend. This year I did part container gardening and part Square foot gardening. Big needy plants like Cucumbers & tomatoes just didn't do so well in my SFG last year so I choose to go back to "patio" gardening for them. But the lettuce, carrots & peas did so well having a raised bed.. I choose to keep them in there this year. I hope this year I will get the best of both worlds. :)


These are my "Birdseed sunflowers" that I rescued from underneath my birdfeeder.
Before

Seedlings and empy SFG.
Box #1
Top row is Snap peas, Celery (bought seedling) & snap peas again

Middle row is Igloo (iceberg) lettuce, Mesclun lettuce & igloo again.

Bottom row is all Little finger carrots.

Top pot is Marketmore cucumber.

Then onions and rosemary

All bought seedlings.

This second box is the same as the first exept The mesclun mix lettuce is replaced with radish seeds!

Top 2 pots are oregon spring tomato & patio tomato.

bottom is marketmore cucumber.

Box #3 is the exact same as #1.

Yukon gold potatoes in potato bin.

Dwarf sunflower in small green pot

MY herb pot in the front with Sage, Thyme & Lemon basil. ( may I add these are 29.99 at my local home improvement store )

Hanging baskets. & birdfeeder

potted plants in the front. Pansies & other container flowers.