Plant Eviction

It's after Memorial Day and the catnip plant in this bed has lost its lease. It's beautiful mound of leaves has been cut and are spread out on a sheet to dry in preparation for their next assignment as stuffing in catnip mice. The roots are headed to the compost. Beans and tomatoes are the new tenants for this garden bed.

Oh yes, about that other plant, a hollyhock that will bloom this year. It gets to stay.

Now the beans and tomatoes are tucked in their bed. The straw mulch is on my cherry tomatoes and yellow pear shaped tomatoes. I love to mix them in a salad for the color combination!

Inside the cage are asparagus beans on the end wire and yellow, Italian, and green beans in the center. We'll have to access the plants from one side because of the hollyhock, but I love flowers mixed in with the vegetables.

Ignore the man behind the curtain, I mean on the right of this picture. He's the magician that makes this garden happen.