I didn't do it last year, but I"m going to do it this year, that is plant more squash. I actually got a later start this year, and it just might be to my advantage (FINALLY, my tardiness is a positive). I have been checking daily for SVB eggs, and hand picking squash bugs off. So far (knock on wood) NO SVB, and I've picked my first baby squishes, 6 so far...woo hoo. I'm going to start these seeds tomorrow I think, it will be a few weeks before they can go out and that will be about perfect. end of June plantings. This year also for the first time, I planted peanuts!! I started them in my greenhouse in a starter tray and I put out just one tray (36) plants. It will be fun to see what comes from them too. I think they are a heat loving plant? I think I may start more of them too, these I will direct sow into the garden :) Basil seems to do fine with the hot of summer here, and they are great bee magnets!!

1) Liriope 2) Daffodil (Narcissus) 3) Lamium purpureum, Purple Dead Nettle 4) Could be Grape Hyacinth. Here in NJ it will be another month or six weeks before they flower. 5) Wintercreeper, Euonymus fortunei 6) Vinca Minor, Periwinkle 7) Probably also Vinca, maybe a little wild Violet? I think your shrub might be some kind of Honeysuckle bush, Lonicera morrowii or something like that. There are a bunch of Euonymus species, most of them are shrubs but E. fortunei is a vine. It also climbs up trees and acts shrubby sometimes. Garden centers sell all kinds of variegated varieties. The original green one has turned into a bad invasive in the woods in the northeast - it pretty much smothers out whatever is around it. On the other hand it has made a nice thick groundcover in the dry shade right behind my house where nothing else grows. You just have to prune it ruthlessly to keep it where you want it. Purple Dead Nettle is a problem if you want a pristine lawn; not sure how you'd get rid of it, though. Probably whatever 'weed and feed' stuff that kills other broadleaf weeds would also get rid of it. It doesn't get very tall, you can just mow it along with the grass. WW Here is a link that might be useful: Wintercreeper, Euonymus fortunei

Exactly! You should install rain barrels...Catch plenty of rain for the winter months so that your plants are not subjected to the tap water all those months.. For me, even though I grow in very porous mixes, the mineral deposits including salts and chlorine wreak havoc on most of my house plants. That is why I gather rain through the warmer months and fill 5 30 gallon buckets for the winter which will last me until about spring. My Orchids in particular HATE tap water even if I flush them every time because the salts still linger and slowly eat away very healthy looking roots. That is why they come out of my house and greenhouse the entire summer to get rained on if we ever get any. Thunderstorms are a thing of the past and now drought has taken hold every summer. It's saddening. Every drop of clean rain water I can collect is like gold. Now I do a heavy watering with the hose tap water on my orchids and then follow with a rinse of rain water. I stick my peace lilies, pathos , palms, dracaena, Philos and many others out every time it rains or they look like crap after a few months. When I use rain water, all the new leaves come in unmarred and so vivid. What a difference rain water makes over tap water for sure! Rhizo, hello to you too..You are missed..Shall we write soon?))

Probably this: Beggar Lice: (desmodium obtusum) a.k.a. Beggar’s Lice, Tick Trefoil Beggar's Lice, also known as Tick Trefoil, is the weed that covers your clothing with flat, eye-shaped, clinging seeds when you've been walking in fields or open woods during late summer and fall. The stickiness of the seed pod is due to its covering of fine hairs. The pod is segmented, with each segment containing a single seed, and the segments break apart easily. The genus name, Desmodium, is Greek, meaning "band" or "chain", referring to these segmented seed pods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmodium