Little Garden in Town: Burial Mound, Horse Shoes, and 2nds

Cleaned up and planted the "burial mound" next to the barn yesterday. Moved the big green plant, and cut back the Naked Irises. I didn't square off the plot, but sorta chunked it out. Divided it into 8 plots. From the fence to the sidewalk, barn side to house side, I have squash and LG's plot, Burpless cukes and Lemon cukes, Pickle cukes and regular cukes, and future pole beans and Purple Bush Beans. Yes, that's a lot of cukes, and no, there is no zucchini... yet. Neighbors got a lot of them coming up, and will probably be the beneficiary of some.

The Burial Mound... in the early morning. Stepping stones are the corners of the plots and divide it in half long ways.

I can't believe it, but LG is turning me into a flower guy. Sheeeesh. Then I ran into a vendor at the Farmers Market who said tending veggies is one thing, but you really get in touch with your soul with flowers. Double Sheeeesh. So, I planted my horeshoe pits with sunflowers. But didn't just throw seeds around. Dug most of the clay out and put in topsoil, peat, and some compost. Red Sun and Teddy Bear will hopefully soon be gracing my pits. Sorry Stevo, no horseshoes for you!!!!!

My first coneflower...