Wifey has been doing great work at the big garden. She planted this mini-watermelon and after an early beetle attack, she raised this little baby (Sugi pharmacy pamphlet for scale).
It tasted like ネギ, which is what happens when someone (not me) doesn't wash the knife after using it...! Again. But after that initial shock, it was pretty damned good. The kids demolished it.
Still have a couple more growing, too.
As the title says. The flowers have a pleasant, sweet fragrance, and the leaves make a wonderful lemon tea.
I will try to grow more from cuttings once it gets bigger. In the meantime, I need to find a way to keep curious little fingers from picking these flowers.
It's looking good this year. I must remember to split it up over the winter. Gotta spread this baby around.
The big garden is in a kind of transition phase due to lack of time last year but the flower patch is still doing its thing.
I bought some "butterfly mix" a few years back and it's been taking care of itself. There are usually tons of butterflies during the day, but the morning of the photo there were a few bees. Pretty happy with that considering how rare they are in my area.
There's a boring path next to my place that just grows weeds. At the start of spring there were uncountable amounts of aphids, and I think now all the slugs hide in there. I'd like to change that.
Now as it's city property I would only do something if I had permission. So if that was the case, what would you plant there?
And if permission were to be denied, what seeds would you do your best to prevent from falling there and accidentally creating a flowerful paradise?
If it matters, it's the west side of my house and the photo is facing the south.
edit: thanks for the responses. It's been a fun read with great suggestions. It's gonna be cool today so I'll start be removing more of the weeds next to my fence.