Dana's Garden

Kurt always complains that we don’t take enough pictures of the garden.  So, here is a whole truckload of them for you to enjoy. As you can see, things are getting HUGE – plus, we were able to pick a zucchini that was nearly a foot long, and our first little jalapeno!  Things are going great overall.  We really cleaned up a lot of the weeds and to prevent rework on the weeding (which we’re both pretty tired of doing), we’re laid down weed control fabric, too.  (Claire, Logan, Genevieve and Bill have a spectacular garden across town at Azalea Park and so we picked up the fabric idea from them. )  Although I didn’t realize how cumbersome it is to put that fabric down.  The anchor pins hit rocks in the ground so you have to keep moving them around to find just the perfect spot, so the whole process takes awhile.  But totally worth it!

We’re also going to have to think about water, since it didn’t rain nearly as much as I thought it was going to in the past week.  Poor little plants are probably getting dried out over there.   Of course, during the move to my new apartment, we accidentally threw out all our water jugs – so, it looks like a trip to the store for me to get some new ones.  I’d wait until I go through some more OJ jugs, but it’s going to be 96 degrees tomorrow so it’s probably in our best interest to get these guys watered tonight. 

Also going to run out to Fifth Season Gardening Co. to see if they have any winter squash seeds (Kurt is raving about winter squash) and to look at their selection of window sill planters.  I have a nice little “juliet” balcony at my new place and want to put some planters on the balustrade, and make that my mini at-home herb garden. 

Anyway, I digress – here are the pictures!  Enjoy!

Dana