Weeding Nightmare

Well, we've had a few good days of sunshine here. Unfortunately the weeds are out of control, and I haven't had a chance to spend time out there since we were busy over the holiday weekend. Still, I've got a few things flowering now and the next crop is budding and looks healthy. The bee balm, black eyed susans and coneflowers I planted in the back bed should all be flowering soon! I'm not sure what the Russian sage is doing, it seems to be behind the other ones I've seen around here, which are already flowering. I hope it does something.

I also put up a window box with some trailing vinca and purple flowers (whose names I can't remember) on the pool shed. We are in the process of picking a color for it and will be painting it red over the next few weeks. Once it's painted and the flowers have taken off some more I'll take pictures.

Here is what's going on now:

Sugar snap peas are producing well and my tomatoes are flowering, which is a shocker. The strawberries and herbs also look healthy and my lettuce mixes are still producing.

Coleus is one of the few annuals that looks OK. All my flowering ones (except for impatiens and petunias) are in pretty bad shape :(

This sand cherry barely flowered this spring. I pruned out a lot of dead wood and it already looks much better. Now I have to figure out where to transplant a smaller one that is not thriving in its too shady location at the moment.


I thought these were weeds and almost ripped them out! I'm glad I didn't since they look an awful lot like foxglove. I've read that most foxglove (digitalis) is biennial, so that would explain why I didn't notice them last year. When I clear out the front island this fall I may move them to a better location. All the perennials located within that evergreen groundcover (I think it's some kind of creeping juniper) are obscured and look lousy in my opinion.