Finally, finally, finally putting in the beds

[conuly]

Rather belatedly, but the only thing I get excited about in the garden - peppers and tomatoes - doesn't like going in the ground too early, not in NYC.

After peppers and tomatoes I like herbs, and after that anything else edible. I appreciate flowers... in other people's gardens. I can't muster up much enthusiasm for them in mine, though, unless I tell myself they're there for the pollinators and even then it's just nothing special.

Anyway, I only have one goal for this year, which is to utterly demolish all ragweed. With that in mind, I told everybody I don't care what they put in the beds, so long as they let me prepare them so as to maximize our ability to kill the ragweed. Consequently they didn't get a single variety of tomato I would've picked out. Oh well.

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[konsectatrix]

Yeah, the last year or two I made the mistake of putting my peppers and tomatoes into the ground too early due to how hot it'd get. I did not fall for that trick this year and I'm so glad.

I'd honestly had no intention of growing flowers but somewhere in the middle of figuring out gardening, flowers kept getting in here and there--marigolds for the tomatoes, echinacea and asters and so on for the pollinators. I think it started as cross-over from the herbs and edible flowers though--anise hyssop, sage, lavender, nasturtiums, and so on. And then I kinda fell in love with the whole effect, so I've been hooked on the whole mixed garden/messy potager idea ever since.