What's working:
- Sunflowers! My multiple species of sunflowers (planted over several weeks for a long period of blooming) are growing tall and beautiful, and I love them.
- Cosmos! It is growing tall too, out in the front. I love it too. I am looking forward to seeing it bloom.
- Zinnias. They are coming up strong.
- My bean plants are mostly doing okay. They seem to need a lot of water to keep from looking wilty in the hot sun.
- My ornamental gourds are doing well too.
- My winter squash plant looks fine. Another one I planted died.
- Blueberry bushes are growing in great. I bought one small one in a container and 3 bareroot.
- Nearly all my houseplants are doing great, both the 3 I bought at the store, and the ones I am growing from seed (pink polka dot plant, coleus).
- My sage and peppermint plant that I intend to live on the front porch are growing nicely in the kitchen windowsill for now.
- I got my strawberry crowns and planted them the day before we had a heat wave, and it got up suddenly to 100 degrees. I decided I didn't want to grow them anyway. Too much trouble with the runners and the maintenance, and it's not that hard to get good stawberries.
- My tomatoes died. I just think I started them too late in the season. Will try again next year.
- Couldn't get my ponytail palm seeds to germinate. I'm going to try again using the wet paper towel method.
- Bell pepper plants
- Raspberries
- Pumpkins
- I need to start earlier, which I knew to begin with, but we moved into this place around the beginning of April, and I wasn't able to start gardening right away.
- Starting tiny seeds takes special care.
- I love easy care, large plants.
- Houseplants are easier for me that outdoor plants. (But I already had experience in them.)
- Sow seeds very heavily. Thinning is easy.
- Seed catalogs may not always be accurate.
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