garden progress

Well, it ain't no Tennessee here, but it finally warmed up, and has not dipped below freezing for a number of weeks now, so the garden is shaping up to be quite the thing.  I see no signs of any herbs yet, which depresses me, but then again, the seeds did specify they were to be planted by 2006 ...  So, the boys and I have been weeding and seeding and praying and hoping.  We even enjoyed our own lettuce on the weekend.  The picture below is totally  "BEFORE" ... we sprinkled wildflower seeds on the part that looks like a telephone receiver, and planted four vegetables in each "square" of garden



this iris was a surprise from Neal ... and smells like the sweetest candy ever!



and a picture from a couple of weeks ago ...



I planted the "old lady", as Neal calls it, geraniums in the front to dissuade the bunnies from dining on my plants.  Oddly enough, this year anyway, they have decided to eat just the geraniums.  Perhaps that is still success.  It will be some time before I have tomatoes or peppers, zucchini or spinach, but when I do, I will have satisfaction and will have justified all the back-breaking work my husband endured to "go with" his wife's latest interest.  At least everyone in the family gets the benefit!

Now to fix up the "real" bed in the next room.  A bonafide actor is coming to rent it from us for the next theatre production in town.  He is coming from the big city of Toronto, and is actually famous, for real!  I hope he likes his room ... and I hope I can find a dresser between now and then ... ahhh, my family is famous for our experiments.  I guess we like to share.