garden stuff

I have twelve tomato sprouts of seven different varieties so far. Luckily, I have a good mix in terms of what has sprouted--one green variety, a yellow, red beefsteak, a black/purple variety and a small red. I am hoping for a few more in the next day or so, and if not I will re-plant a few. I had a minor mishap with my tomato mini-greenhouse thing as it got, and stayed, too damp and I lost a few sprouts before I recognized the problem and took the damned lid off. The sprouts are much happier now.

I planted sunflower seeds in the back today, along with a couple of basil plants. I have some pepper plants that need to go in the ground maybe tomorrow or Monday. We also need to start some pepper, onion and lettuce seeds.

I planted marigolds in the front flower bed and acquired some other flowering plants that I still need to get in the ground such as blue delphiniums (one of our wedding flowers), yellow dahlias and some others whose names escape me at the moment.

ptor mowed our hay lawns today. Mowing has become too difficult on my back so I am very grateful he was able to get it done today as the lawns were really overgrown. He also edged the lawns and bushes and it all looks much beter. I pulled about a million weeds in the backyard flower/herb/pepper bed as well which made that look a lot better.

Our artichoke plant continues to produce and grow, which is very cool.

We still have lots to do, but we are getting there.

art

We went to joedecker's open studio today and had a lovely mellow time. I also purchased the mini print of Gulls Ascending, which has captivated me since the moment I first saw it.

Now I must just get it framed and hung in the house.

Yay!