So lately I’ll I’ve been doing in the garden is weeding and picking tomatoes and some other veggies. Lots of tomatoes. But you really can’t have too much. I have been eating large amounts of BLT’s too. They are delicious. I harvested a few leeks (my trial crop for the year, and they turned out better than a bunch of other stuff) and made a leek and potato soup, which was yummy.

Today I went and bought a whole bunch of plants for a landscape project. I would highly encourage people to make planting plans. I see so many gardens planted willy-nilly. But with a good planting plan you know exactly what and how many plants to buy, and make sure you have plants blooming/looking good the entire season. You can also avoid doing things like planting azaleas in Utah (very stupid and any good nursery won’t carry them), buying plants with nowhere to put them, or putting a plant in the wrong place.

Not saying a planting plan is set in stone. I never spec out exact varieties, preferring to finalize those when I buy them. Sometimes you have to substitute out something because you can’t find it. And there is always improvements to make after it’s all planted up, maybe some plants are struggling in a certain spot, or you don’t like the way a certain perennial looks. An occasional spur-of the moment purchase is fine too. (I have chocolate flowers to plant. No idea where yet, but I bought them for 1.5o a piece at a year-end garden center sale. They are awesome plants so very worth it.)

Planting plans aren’t hard to make with a decent plant encyclopedia. I made a bunch of plant lists that I use with my favorite and common plants, and I’ve posted them here.

Anyway, the whole point of this post is I had lots of fun buying lots of plants and a landscape design made that happen.