Saint Louis Victory Garden

My wife bought some new plants and we had some other plants that need transplanting so that's what we worked on this morning. In the cottage garden, we planted Barbara's Buttons (circled in red) and Closed Gentian (circled in white). We moved one hydrangea from the north side of the house and planted it in the back yard. We also planted a hydrangea that we bought at Schnucks. There was a group of three hydrangeas on the north side of the house where I separated one and planted it it nearby. We also planted some blue bells and celandine poppies.

We planted tomatoes on Friday. There were several varieties including some Roma tomatoes that I am hoping to make into sauce. We also planted some seeds that we got for free. We also planted some herbs in the "pizza garden". We transplanted an oregano from another bed and also planted marjoram, basil, and rosemary. We already had a bed with garlic in it.

I planted some jalapeño peppers seeds inside to get them started. I will move them outside once the weather warms up. I got fewer seedling than I wanted so I planted some more seeds on Sunday.

Years ago someone planted winter creeper (euonymus) in our backyard as a ground cover. I have been neglecting and it has been spreading. This year, we are trying to get rid of it. Here's some pictures of some of the work that I did last Friday.

Here's some photos of whats going on in the rest of the yard today.

Last year, we decided to convert our side yard into a vegetable garden. The kids used to play there but they are too old to play in the yard now. This is what it looked like last September. A bunch of grass is kind of wasteful but I did my part by not watering it or fertilizing it. In February, I started breaking ground (literally) on the new garden. This took a while to do. Breaking up the grass is a lot of work even with the tiller. The soil in this part of our yard is not very good. It has a lot of clay in it. I added leaf mulch to it to try and improve it. On Saturday, We planted the first bed. It has dinosaur kale, bok choy, spinach, lettuce, beets, radishes, and carrots. Yesterday we added a second bed with cauliflower, kohlrabi, dill, onions, and potatoes. I've not had much luck with potatoes in the past. I only planted these because we had some potatoes that started sprouting and I figured I had nothing to lose. Today we added 6 strawberry plants.   The p