gardening in the sideyard

In front of the gladiola row, I didn't put tithonia this year

Instead I dug up weeds and grass, raked it all smooth, and set out green bean plants. These got dug into the ground.

They'd been in their larger pots just a week before I realized they were only half the needed size- here pictured with cucumbers to the right, some of the larger celosia behind them.

So I planted them. On the other side against the house, I mowed back the vinca, layered shredded leaves over the grass and set two- and three-gallon pots out- with the tomatoes and bush cucumbers. Peek of swamp milkweed in the corner, there (its doing grand)

Further down the fence line from the green bean patch, tithonias finally got set out