Ok, first of all, this once a week garden journaling thing isn't working . I need to post more often than this for the journal to be valuable.  To encourage that, I am going to start posting simple gps tracks and descriptions of all my rides.  This will be fun for me to look at later as well and it will force me to do this more often. 

The garden is doing well.  The front garden remains my challenge- quite weedy.  My plan is to wait about two more weeks for the good stuff to get established and then spend money on starts to fill in the holes.  I will then weed as well as I can and then mulch everything heavily.

Here's some interesting photos (to me) from the front garden:

This is the full length of the garden- the frost blanket is from the frost in the last picture.  From right to left:
Azalea, hostas, flame azalea, more hostas, butterfly bush, ground cover, azalea, decorative  grass, a bush of some kind.  There's some day lilies and ground covers littered throughout.  It's all actually quite pretty.

This is a ground cover I like a lot.  Really bright blue flowers- the photo was taken at dusk, sorry about the flash-out.

Close up of the flame azalea, that bush is COVERED now, looks really good.

Here's the elephant ears that were frost damaged from the last post- they came back really strong. 


Now, the vegetable garden.  It's rocking  for this time of year.  One thing that has gone wrong-ish is that it's been so warm, my broccoli started to bolt already, I had to cut it back.  No pictures.  I also have lettuce, arugula, and spinach to eat.



This photo shows lettuce, arugula, spinach, peas, and onions.  I'm very pleased with this little spring bed.

Onions and "walls of water."  Linda and Bill, I think, gave me these years ago and I still use them to protect early-planted tender veggies, they work really well but have lots of holes,  I need to order some new ones.
Inside the walls of water are...

Jalapenos.  Every year, my tomatoes are peaking and my hot peppers are barely started.  I'm going to try and fix this by giving these about a 3 week head start on the tomatoes.  In the past, I've used these walls to get earlier tomatoes.  I am interested to see how this works. 

Alright, that's all the blogging for now.  Time to eat some breakfast!