greybirdplace: Catching Up

Today is Saturday, one day before our one year wedding anniversary. Jeff and I are at Joe's...a little coffee dive in East Atlanta Village. It's fairly quiet in here today. Jeff is working on some writing and i'm finally catching up on this blog of mine. the DINKS again post was starting to get on my nerves because it's been up for three months now. It's raining outside, which i'm so glad about. for the garden, and because it gives me an excuse to stay in and get some updates done.

If the sun comes out again today, i'll go outside and take some pictures of the back yard as it looks now. it was fun to look at some of the pictures I took early this spring/late winter because we hadn't done anything to the yard then and now it looks so much better! we did a little makeshift landscaping with dug up rocks and loads of mulch. we planted 9 thuja green giants along the back fence, we started a new bean bed along the side of the shed (there's also okra in this bed) and the compost is finally somewhat organized....can you organize compost?

I've got so much planted this year and can't wait for it to all start taking off. Mainly at this point because i've got some little munchers that keep threatening to take down my tomatos and kale before it has a chance to get strong. but, i don't want to use any pesticides. and, i haven't gotten around to making this soap/cayenne pepper conconction that I've heard is effective.

Clare, i also heard about the whole plant tomatos on their side thing...i'm trying it now. we'll see how that goes. and, my peas are like candy too! I didn't plant a ton so i'm sure none of them will ever make it into the house for a meal, they'll just make for a great little snack while i weed.

Mom, i planted the blue sage by the garden. am still trying to decide where to put the blackeyedsusans...or were they cone flowers? can't remember.

I'll take pictures of all this stuff and post when the sun comes out.

Now i'm going to read this book: