What's blooming now?

Saturday's market was full of flowers as many gardens are just starting to produce. This weeks vases included Asian lilies, blue and pink larkspur, coreopsis (single and double), sweet williams, daisies, astilbe, yarrow, mint and baby's breath. Lavender will be ready next week to add another scent to the jars.

All the corn is in and the beans will be finished this week just in time to start wheat harvest. Two days rest in between would be good. Ron has been leaving at 4-5:00a.m. and returning close to 10:00p.m. and eating dinner before bed.

The flower beds are receiving a weed preventative treatment. First weeds are pulled, newspaper is layed down in bare spots, paper is sprinkled with water, mulch is added, and sprinkled again. Hope this works. It does seem to work well in the garden between rows. Straw replaces mulch in the garden.