Early Summer 2025 Gardening Update
For an update on my original Gardening 2025 post…
Flowers
We’ve got 3 Sunflower plants going strong (and I don’t want to say what happened to the fourth…) One is as tall as me, with no blooms quite yet. A second has five or six open flowers! The third has one flower on it so far, and some more coming.


Our 2 Morning Glory hanging baskets are really taking off now, with tendrils going up to the tops of their baskets. I’ve only seen one flower on either of them so far, and it didn’t open up at all, though I did get one picture of it. Then in the back yard we’ve got some pots with Moonflowers, and last night just before bedtime I saw the first bloom on one of them. It was big and beautiful!


But easily my favorites have been the Zinnias. I originally put them in some small pots and set them around our mailbox. But I could tell they were getting root-bound, and since I was feeling a little bit of inspiration, I decided to put some landscape bricks around the mailbox, so I could then transplant them into the soil. Just a few days after I finished that, they really started to take off (although the Miracle Grow may have made a difference for that too).






We are still hopeful that we’ll see some buds on our Canterbury Bells, Wild Flowers, and Painted Daisies. Though I think all of the Five Spots that we put out have sadly passed on…
Veggies
Not quite as beautiful as the flowers – or maybe just as beautiful, but simply less colorful – is the veggie garden. A reminder of what we planted in here:
- Chives – which barely sprouted, but also, I don’t know what I’d use them for, so thats okay too 🙂
- Carrots – which are growing like weeds and might be ready to dig up soon
- Basil – which has made for some good pesto, and added a little flavor to some pizzas
- Brussels Sprouts – which I’m most looking forward to – but apparently won’t be ready to harvest until the fall??
- Spinach – which I got 4 or 5 good meals out of
- Parsley – which I’m not really sure why I planted? I did put a little on some chicken the other night…
- more Carrots – which are also close
- Peppermint – which barely sprouted, despite me being told that it was so easy to grow?


