By the Fall I hope to have found the motivation to reshape the larger garden plot in the backyard with Hugelkultur mounds and create a living border with these Aloe. All suffered significant withering over the Winter but are still kicking out tons of fresh shoots. The two isolated mains in the lighter containers are larger than the original cluster that fostered all this over the past several years.
The Sons of Goliath (cuttings of the majestic male from the first of the year) are keeping company outdoors with the Phoenix Madusa awaiting the wave of Butternut squash coming up to speed beside the shed. The no till Shade Garden where they live only gets about three or four hours of full Sun but located further into the yard my above ground effort of Sweet Potato, Crookneck, and Zucchini receive about eight.
One of my personal favorites these are Dragon's Breath (a hybrid celosia) returning from the specimen I enjoyed last year and destined to be distributed into individual containers to add their brilliant display throughout my efforts.
Shaping up to be a pretty brutal Summer; despite yesterday's generous afternoon shower the vegetable patch is looking rather forlorn. The butternut squash that fills the greenhouse will ultimately inherit the smaller garden plot once I summon the energy and motivation to clear the weeds that have already overrun it. An experiment in passive cloning several seasons ago proved how effortless and vigorous the method is for the Mexican Petunias that accent the yard while gifting me with their daily display. Currently a week into trying with some mint that competes with a patch in the back yard; too soon to form roots but still vibrant. Gives the cat litter containers a second life and keeps them from joining the abundance of plastics in the local landfill.
The handful of holdouts started outdoors to hedge my bet should a wave of dick fever sweep over my current crop.