My May Entry to the SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge - Finally getting out into the Outdoor Garden...

Finally we got some warm weather last week and things are starting to sprout and I'm getting out putting in the outdoor garden!

The indoor garden is still going strong giving us our fresh greens and holding my bedding plants and Cannabis plants but gradually as the outdoor gardening progresses that will be emptied out until next fall.

Indoor Garden - Coming into the Last Week of May

I've been hardening off my bedding plants and ready to start putting the cool weather plants in. My pepper plants will be grown in containers in a warm, sunny part of our yard so I can bring them in in the fall to finish the harvest of them ( now with the lights I can probably keep some going all winter long!) I will just keep potting them up until it get real warm out and there is no danger of frost.

Bedding Plants Outside Being Hardened Off

My poor little brassicca plants almost got taken out by flee beetles but my peppers are starting to bloom, which is good news!

Broccoli Plants Planted in Covered Garden for Some Early Broccoli

In the covered garden I also have a nice patch of nettles growing that I'm going to pick to add to the cabbage soup for some extra nutrients - love my nettles for they are the first greens ready early in spring!

Nettles - First Greens Ready for Picking!

Since there isn't that many blooms out for the humming birds I put out a pot of flowers for them. Not sure what they feed on when they return in early spring, perhaps bugs.

Calibrachoa Flowers Planted for the Hummingbirds

You'll see the ferns are out too and I also planted up my duck planter with my favorite cool weather plants - wave pansies (these really smell sweet too) and some wave petunias.

Duck Planter with Wave Pansies

I also planted some wave pansies in my half pot planter. This lovely clay pot had broke in half so I just layed the broken side on the ground and have flowers that look like they are pouring out of it.

Wave Pansies in Half Pot

The Haskaps are in full bloom and the bees have been busy in them. They are one of the earliest producing berries ready to eat in June.

Haskaps in Full Bloom

Forsythia is in Bloom

The cat mint has sprouted - JJ's favorite plant! I learned to plant it at the edge of the garden away from any delicate plants for JJ loves to roll on it and nibble at it.

JJ with Head Buried in the Cat Mint

I got half of my greens garden planted with some lettuce, spinach and arugula just in time before the rains came.

There's been lots of robins in our yard - listen to their lovely song after one of our first spring rains...

I hope you enjoyed my garden tour and I'd love to see yours.
Come and Join @simplymike 's SteemIt Community Garden Journal Challenge!

See the whole series of the Gardening for Food Security Indoor Gardening Project featured in the top photo at:

Part 1 - https://steemit.com/gardening/@porters/gardening-for-food-security-indoor-gardening-new-project-beginning

Part 2 - https://steemit.com/gardening/@porters/gardening-for-food-security-indoor-gardening-new-project-beginning-part-2

Part 3 - https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@porters/gardening-for-food-security-indoor-gardening-project-part-3-the-experiment-worked

Part 4 - https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@porters/video-tour-gardening-for-food-security-indoor-gardening-project-part-4

Part 5 - https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@porters/why-i-brought-my-gardening-indoors-indoor-gardening-project-part-5

Part 6 - https://steemit.com/dsnapx/@porters/gye4b7sv

Part 7 - https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@porters/gardening-for-food-security-indoor-garden-project-part-7-a-walk-thru-and-making-cuttings

Part 8 - https://steemit.com/dtube/@porters/k4yhd5b7

Part 9 - https://steemit.com/dtube/@porters/5x0x3oz7

Part 10 - https://steemit.com/dtube/@porters/g8xh0kq2

Part 11 - https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@porters/lessons-learned-in-my-gardening-for-food-security-indoor-garden-project-part-11

Part 12 - https://steemit.com/gardening/@porters/march-2019-my-garden-journal-entry

Part 13 - https://steemit.com/gardening/@porters/april-fools-day-and-spring-is-playing-tricks-on-us-plus-indoor-garden-update

All images were taken with my Canon PowerShot A495

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