80 Degrees in April!

Yesterday it reached mid-80's by late afternoon and it was fabulous. From the time I got home until past sunset I was outside. We dug up all the weeds and crabgrass that were in the pepper garden. Jim's going to put some of his compost in there before we start planting there. Speaking of - next weekend is the Living Green Expo and I will finally be able to pick up my new compost bin out there. We have a couple ice cream buckets full of pulp from the juicing we've been doing lately.

Anyway, the garden. The nurseries aren't really carrying that many veggie starters yet so I haven't put everything in that I want. Right now I have a bunch of kale, basil, parsley, rosemary, cilantro, tomatoes, one broccoli, one brussel sprout, a couple of green peppers, and then I planted a bunch of annuals as well.

This picture was taken after I did a bunch of work in the yard and garden this past weekend. Jim had the paver block just sitting around so I put them to good use.

Here's a pic of the front of the house before I started any work on it. He has a bunch of hosta to the left of the walkway. I put in a bunch of annuals along the fence, to the right. I also flanked either side of the walkway with a pot and put some hardy annuals in there - sweet potato vines and flowering kale. I do not have after pics yet...