A little trimming, a lot of sunshine.

 My how the weather changes. Yesterday, barely any sun, today, nothing but since the sun came up. Perfect gardening weather really, actually worked up a sweat. Temps are going to be pretty much the same for the next week or so. Mid to high 70's during the day and dropping down into the high 50's at night with variable clouds. Wish my tomatoes would kick into high gear.

I decided to trim the sweet peas a bit. There was a LOT of mildew on them and a good portion of the branches/leaves in the back were yellow and brown from lack of sun. I also discovered that I have a mild mildew allergy. It was throwing some serious powdery spores all over when I was cutting it.

I cut a bunch of the flowers off the branches I removed so no lack of a bouquet there, cut a bunch yesterday for my daughter as well.  Bundled up the pile and just barely fit them all in the green waste container near the trash.  Definitely going to get a dwarf variety for next year.

Speaking of flowers, this plant is apparently thriving on benign neglect with so many flowers this year. It's in an ideal location really and happy to see so many flowers lighting up the space!

That silly potato plant. I'm going to try and leave it as long as possible and hope that some spuds develop above the chicken wire in the bottom. I might have to pile soil around it or something after the cauliflowers are done. Still no sign of a flower on the other cauliflower but it was a bit younger than the other one. I also trimmed out a branch or two on the cilantro. Was going to chop that down too because there are seeds on the 'wild' one by the compost. I left it for now for butterflies and other insects. Lots of Mourning Cloak, one lone Swallowtail and a Monarch in the past week were out and flitting about.

 

 All the seedlings are doing good (picture taken before I watered the heck out of them). I brought down some empty cups that I had used for planting with the idea of transplanting some of those tomatillos but did other things instead. Will try and do that tomorrow. Hoping the lids on those other containers speeds things up a bit, it's getting awfully late for planting tomatoes and peppers.

More flowers blooming from yesterday. Apparently I'm wrong to complain about her hacking back that lantana,  it came back like gangbusters.

Today and yesterday. Today, the celery is doing great, yay! And that wet spot is a drippage from the overhang. Apparently we had heavy mist/fog/spatter rain the night before. The carrot still isn't ready.

On my way upstairs I decided to help our downstairs neighbor who's been in the hospital for almost a month and not been home. Went and watered her wilting plants, didn't get any pictures but will get a photo tomorrow. A pothos that was seriously yellow and dying (but it's pothos, it will survive with the watering I gave it). A lot of geraniums, her walkway is lined with Sanseverias from a single pot, there's a loquat at the back near the wall that's in a pot and surviving. While I was watering a hummingbird came to check out the stream of water from the hose. I tried to hold still and mentally encourage her to go ahead and take a dip but she was investigating. Hope I didn't water a nest but she was quiet, if I was intruding she would have been chittering and trying to attack me. So lots of succulents were in there, just a mish mash of things. I just remembered I left two 5 gallon pots that were on stands near her door out in the sun when I watered them. Oops. Will go down later and move them back.

So good deed done, watering done, weather is good, what else could you ask for?