More fresh wax beans. And more. And more. My dry beans are almost harvest and done, except the Mitla Black beans which are just getting started but have already had am impressive yield. Tons of patty pan squash and cucumbers Some zucchini Most of the herbs are harvested and are hanging to dry or being added to preserves. Still eating some strawberries and raspberries. Still no tomatoes, tomatillos, and the peppers aren't even blooming yet. My garden is not doing well there. Corn soon, very soon. The first melons in another week or tweo.

Many Magnolias do this. They will bloom in the spring on flower buds formed the previous year(usually in early fall or late summer depending on the Magnolia, weather, etc.) and will put out an initial flush of growth soon after flowering. On subsequent flushes of growth, they will have sporadic flowers, because they formed flower buds at the end of the previous flush of growth. All of the "Little Girls" will do this for me, and virtually all Saucer Magnolias(Magnolia x soulangeana) will do this for me as well. Several other cultivars and hybrids do this and even one was specifically named and introduced because it had such a heavy round of flowers with each subsequent flush of growth that it is quite showy the entire growing season. It's called 'March Til Frost'. Most of these hybrids and cultivars do indeed have some Lilly Magnolia(M. liliflora) in their genetic makeup, even though Lilly Magnolia rarely puts out secondary flowers(at least for me). Some of the cultivars that do this have only a tiny percentage of Lilly Magnolia genes, but perhaps this is still the origins of their flowering behavior.

Soil is really warm down there - even under the mulch hay where I had the potatoes it's about 56. The rows where I wanted to plant the edamame (actually more like trenches - where the tomatoes drowned in 2011), with just weed cover is 70! But I noticed that areas that are normally soggy with poor drainage aren't now. Not that they're dry, the weeds seem to be doing OK in the trenches, but the flatter area across the road from there where the manure pile is isn't squishing as I walk on it. And the deep pit at the end of the trellised trenches I filled with chicken manure and sawdust, where I had all the volunteer tomatoes last year b/c it's glacial till underneath and doesn't drain (I never had to water those volunteers last summer) has only a couple small weeds growing in it. We've had just over an inch of rain this month (TWC says we had 1.5" last month but Dad didn't mention any the night before we got back from vacation so I'm not sure about that day). We got just 1/100" yesterday (supposedly - my rain gauge broke and I haven't replaced it). We're expecting more next week, but of course it's too far away to tell how much - just a 20-30% chance early in the week and supposedly more later. But it worries me that we're getting 1-1.5" when we should be getting 4.5" a month this time of year - it's been below normal for almost a year now, we didn't even get as much snow as normal. Reservoirs and ponds are still looking OK, but our springs aren't running like they normally do - the one that feeds our pond isn't making it all the way there any more, and the one that runs along our driveway (we had to put in a culvert when we built) disappeared a month ago. The only thing that's keeping things green is the snow melt and that won't last much longer. I'm wondering if I should scale back (though I've spent money on supplies, incl. lumber for hoophouse) this year, just sell my plants and keep a small garden near the house for us. I haven't sent in my fee for market yet. I just don't want to spend $200 for market, $50 for insurance certificate, and bust my butt (and run the well dry) all summer hauling water out back to keep the beans, edamame, 100+ tomatoes and 50 peppers watered and then find (like I did with peppers and onions last year) that it wasn't enough and I don't harvest (m)any. This post was edited by ajsmama on Thu, May 16, 13 at 13:17

Thanks to both of you. So I can put down my transplanting spade? It is LAX, that's for sure. Odd plant posture -- it's long, would-be tall, but is flopped over prostrate or was never upright. On the other hand, if this could duke it out and prevail over the following abundant weeds or "herbs," I think I'd consider a swap: Self heal (prunella __) all over my upslope "lawn" Violets -- everywhere in lawn and, well, everywhere but in the boats. Japanese knotweed (I have to keep battling this with spade and trash bags from my neighbor's yard. Touch me nots (forgot name? type of ?impatiens? -- hummingbirds like it, but it is swamping my Clethra alnifolia (native) and sassafras. Bouncing bette / bet (back of area by woods but too close. Hummingbirds like this, so it has that attribute. Hawkweed Thanks again.