Aurora's Blog

Today in the Garden 5-03-08
May 3, 2008 | 10:42 AM PST
Tags: compost , tomatoes , lavender , seeds

I prepared the veggie bed. I must've added about 6 inches of compost to it! I hope the 2 (haha) tomatoes I planted will be happy. I am planning on adding peppers and various herbs. Maybe I'll plant the lavender seeds my mom got me in there too- it's a raised bed so it should get plenty of drainage.

I still need to turn my other compost pile and add a bunch of "green" to it. Not a whole lot of fun without a pitchfork. I just don't want to spend $20- $30 for one!!

Some of the sweet pea seeds I planted about 4 days ago have sprouted! (dance of joy)

I took a bunch of photos the last few days. Now I just need to get DH off of the PS3 so he can offload them. Hopefully I'll have them posted tonight *fingers crossed*

Today in the garden 5-01-08
May 1, 2008 | 12:21 PM PST
Tag: Seeds

I finally pulled the garlic mustard. Boy was that an aptly named plant- the whole yard smelled like garlic! I put it in a garbage bag and threw it out, I don't want to take the chance of it spreading...

Huge bare spot now- what to fill it with???????

I also planted some more seeds- Lupine, Mexican Sunflower, Mexican Cigar Plant, Nasturtiums, and Four O'Clocks. This time I marked where every seed was planted with a toothpick so I can tell them apart from the weed seedlings. I don't want a repeat of the kids garden Hehehe.

Megan and I let "Buggy" free. I took loads of pictures for her, if there's any good ones I'll post it here too ;)