RSC26 -- Pink Tulips

I utilized my time this week to go back and catch up on a pink project I worked on earlier this year.

The pattern is Tulip Table Runner --a pattern by Amy Chappeli from Ameroonie Designs.

I pulled out the pastels from my Bit Con quilt (Bonnie Hunter pattern).  I got those sewn together.  

I cut all the rest of the pieces needed of the green stems and leaves and background fabric while at the shop with my truck last week. 

Several of you mentioned having trouble growing tulips due to the fact that animals would dig up the bulbs to eat them.  I had that problem in the past.  To resolve it I learned that when I planted the bulbs to dig out more and put a 10" square piece of wire mesh above it that had about 1" gaps in it.  The gaps let the tulip shoots grow up through it.  The rest of the mesh makes it to hard for the varmint to get to it and it moves on to eating another one of my delicious plants...

My strawberry planter is growing beautifully even with all the dry weather we have had.  Cucumbers are starting to climb around the pool ladder rungs in the back of the planter.

My tomatoes in the raised beds are not doing so great just yet.  I just got the hose out to them this week to make sure they get watered on a more regular basis.

My purple things (I think they are Bellflowers) are beautiful.  We had a very brief hard rain late last night.  They were knocked down a bit but stood back up after I took the photo.

I have been having trouble planting zucchini from seed ever since 2020.  Finally I got two plants to grow from the free seeds from the library in this old, cracked kettle.  This is the kettle that my grandparents used when we butchered and for making apple butter.  The weird cement face was part of an art pot that I bought in the gift shop in our county disabilities building.  It had a planter with it and when planted was supposed to resemble the plant being hair.  The terra cotta pot broke off the first week I had it planted.  I stuck it in this kettle for fun.  The large zucchini plant seems to be doubling by the day in the hot weather.

I finally planted my dried out marigold plants yesterday.  When I moved the graduation sign Candy the cat must have thought that would be a good way to still be in the shade.  I decided to allow the one volunteer tomato plant to continue to grow in this bed.  Usually this little bed is where I plant tomatoes.  This year the flowers growing around the edge came up again.  I didn't know that they were perennials.

I'm linking up at Angela's blog, SoScrappy, for the RSC26