{"id":5199,"date":"2025-06-19T11:28:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2025-06-19T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:28:36","slug":"communal-bed-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/?p=5199","title":{"rendered":"Communal Bed Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"\" — Walking path-side of the bed (the \u201cnaked spot\u201d is freshly sown and will be mulched later)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday was the last cool-ish day before we are now entering a stretch of days with temperatures in the 90s and mid\/upper 80s, so I decided to sort of finalize the preparations for the outside communal flower bed. I spent three hours weeding, sowing (annual & perennial wildflower mix and cosmos), transplanting, and mulching with salt marsh hay. I still have some seedlings that will go in this bed, mainly zinnias and okra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Eastern Bluestar, a native perennial, which eventually will grow into a large bush<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This year, the bed will look different. We sadly won\u2019t have as many dahlias as last year, and we had to remove the blueberry bush as it had died (probably from overwatering, or from dog traffic \u2026). The walking-path section of the bed is planted with Black-eyed Susans, lavender, many annuals (calendula, hibiscus, nasturtium, zinnias, cosmos, wildflower mix, sweet alyssum, celosia, okra) and a few dahlias. There also is Swiss chard, and a volunteer squash or cucumber, that I transplanted. Most of the plants are still tiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
From front to back: hibiscus, calendula, zinnias<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
In the narrow center part of the bed, we planted tomatoes, hot peppers and several types of basil. The tomatoes are all cherry types, which will make it easier for the neighborhood to enjoy. There is also a healthy sage plant, anise hyssop, marigolds, and a tall yellow-flowering perennial (a donation of which I do not know the name). Towards the fence, we planted two types of climbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Lance-leaved coreopsis in the native perennial street-side corner <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The perennials corner close to the street is looking really good. Everything came back vigorously, and the Corepsis and Bluestar are flowering. The perennials are interplanted with strawflowers and sweet alyssum, and the calendula self-sowed and will show up in patches throughout the bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Native perennials: New York asters, goldenrod, Coreopsis, Bluestar, creeping thyme<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\"\" — Walking path-side of the bed (the \u201cnaked spot\u201d is freshly sown and will be mulched later)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Yesterday was the last cool-ish day before we are now entering a stretch of days with temperatures in the 90s and mid\/upper 80s, so I decided to sort of finalize the preparations for the outside communal flower bed. I spent three hours weeding, sowing (annual & perennial wildflower mix and cosmos), transplanting, and mulching with salt marsh hay. I still have some seedlings that will go in this bed, mainly zinnias and okra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Eastern Bluestar, a native perennial, which eventually will grow into a large bush<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This year, the bed will look different. We sadly won\u2019t have as many dahlias as last year, and we had to remove the blueberry bush as it had died (probably from overwatering, or from dog traffic \u2026). The walking-path section of the bed is planted with Black-eyed Susans, lavender, many annuals (calendula, hibiscus, nasturtium, zinnias, cosmos, wildflower mix, sweet alyssum, celosia, okra) and a few dahlias. There also is Swiss chard, and a volunteer squash or cucumber, that I transplanted. Most of the plants are still tiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
From front to back: hibiscus, calendula, zinnias<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
In the narrow center part of the bed, we planted tomatoes, hot peppers and several types of basil. The tomatoes are all cherry types, which will make it easier for the neighborhood to enjoy. There is also a healthy sage plant, anise hyssop, marigolds, and a tall yellow-flowering perennial (a donation of which I do not know the name). Towards the fence, we planted two types of climbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Lance-leaved coreopsis in the native perennial street-side corner <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
The perennials corner close to the street is looking really good. Everything came back vigorously, and the Corepsis and Bluestar are flowering. The perennials are interplanted with strawflowers and sweet alyssum, and the calendula self-sowed and will show up in patches throughout the bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"\"$
Native perennials: New York asters, goldenrod, Coreopsis, Bluestar, creeping thyme<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yesterday was the last cool-ish day before we are now entering a stretch of days with temperatures in the 90s and mid\/upper 80s, so I decided to sort of finalize…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,3,44,32,22,21,26,29,42,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-general","category-greens","category-herbs","category-in-the-garden","category-planting","category-spring","category-summer","category-tomatoes","category-vegetables"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7mi2j-1lR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ninebyeighteen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}