Gardening update

I'm just amazed at how  quickly the Kentucky Bean seeds sprouted!  We just planted them 4 or 5 days ago.  We have a long row of beans sprouts at the bottom of the fence and soon the plants will start to climb the strings we've attached to the top of the fence railing. 

We have strings on the fence for cucumber seeds which have sprouted too.  I'm looking forward to picking fresh green beans and cucumbers while standing up- no stoop labor here!  The flower seeds have also sprouted and we've used blooming bed plants in the same planter circles so we have color long before summer gets here. 

I hope my son is able to get a Confederate Rose plant at the garden center.  It isn't a rose, but a type of Hibiscus with beautiful flowers that are white in the morning, pink at noon and red in the late evening, changing color all in one day.  The plant is from China and was brought to this country in the 1600's. 

We still have seed packets to plant.  I'll post updates on our gardening projects, but I think some packets may be put aside for 'another time'.....We are getting a good workout with all this labor.  we're not used to it.  Sooner or later, someone is going to say, "enough is enough!"