I finally got around to staking my tomatoes today, if you can imagine that. They look good and healthy, but I have perhaps only three tomatoes each on my five plants, so I'm not looking forward to a great yield this year. The plants are short, due to the poor weather earlier this summer, so they have only needed staking now that the tomatoes are putting on bulk.
I pulled the last of my carrots from the raised bed, though I have more seedlings shooting up already for my fall crop. My daughter and her neighborhood friend Bella enjoyed some fresh treats while blowing bubbles on the front porch.
I also took advantage of the relatively pleasant evening to move some plants around: I'm making more of my parking strip (it's mostly white yarrow, which is beautiful for a short period of time, then dull when it fades) by inter-planting some other perennials. Lately I've put in some catmint, bee balm, coreopsis (now that I know what it is) and today moved my gaillardia there. They had been lost behind the coneflowers and rudbeckia, and as re-bloomers, they should shine in their more prominent space, especially now that the yarrow is gone.
While I was in the transplanting mood, I moved around a foxglove, two stella d'oro's (also hidden by the rudbeckia) and a butterfly bush.
After all that moving, I watered everything in -- with water from my rain barrel! Thank you, Portland Water District, for saving me money.
Speaking of butterfly bushes, this afternoon my daughter and I watched a butterfly go round and round one flower head of the very tall butterfly bush right outside our living room window. 'Twas a beautiful sight.
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