Good Morning Little Robin

This morning I had to venture across the ill-planned rock wall that segregates our house from our neighbor to collect Krusty's morning constitutional. I'm sorry but that's the nicest way I could think of saying I WAS PICKING UP POOP. In any other situation (ie. if it had been in our yard) I would have "forgotten" about it until Jerry got home (love you). However, we like Bob and Steph and I was compelled to do them a solid.  Get it? Cmon Friday poop jokes! Yes!

Ok I'm sorry. This post is supposed to evoke sweet sighs and oohs and ahhhs.Not grimaces and groans.

So anyway, as a reward for doing my neighborly duty (hehe doodie - I can't help it, I'm on FIRE!) I found a wee little robin's nest and a newly hatched egg. Since the nest was on the ground, I suppose you could turn this into a sad story. However, I have decided that it is indeed a hatched egg and not a poached one. So let's just go with that. And I took pictures! Don't you just love robin's egg blue?

Happy Friday baby bird!

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Dig Dig Dig

I am super excited about Garden 3.0, let me tell you! We were gifted some lettuce by our neighbor and I planted it last week. I wasn't really sure what to do with it because it needs partial shade and for the most part, we just moved our boxes to full on sun. That is, we thought we had until last evening. I noticed that the back half of the far box was shaded in the late afternoon, so I moved the lettuce there.

Today I went to the Farmer's Market to pick up the transplants for this year. While I think it's awesome to start from seed and probably more fulfilling, I know my limits! So to market I went. It was such a beautiful day! I could really get lost at the farmer's market. Sigh. There were so many choices, but I kept to my decision of sticking with what I know and what we will eat. Here is the 2010 Garden:

• Better Boy Tomatoes
• Slicing Cucumbers
• Golden Sweet Peppers
• Yellow Squash
• Bib Lettuce
• Red Lettuce
• Basil
• Rosemary
• Cilantro

I also decided to pot the herbs instead of putting them in the box with the big kids. I've never had a problem with any plants getting choked out, but they are so pretty, I wanted them to stand out a bit. And having them on the back porch makes them even more accessible.

I am so ready to eat these veggies! Grow babies grow :-)

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Welcome Spring

How we've missed you!

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Let the Gardening Begin!

Saturday marked the official first day of Spring, I know this because Rita's was giving away free Italian Ice, a provision that would have been awesome had my local store BEEN OPEN. I digress.

The weather was nice and I decided it was time to get our square-foot-gardening boxes prepped for planting. This year, we decided to move them closer to the house because a) The sun is better, and b)last year they turned into giant litter boxes. We are hoping that having them closer will also make it a wee bit easier for me to maintain them since Jerry has decided to be hands off (see giant litterbox).

old location

Although, I don't know if we can really consider prepping the lawn, digging trenches and shoveling dirt hands off. You decide. We moved the old dirt to the back of the yard and cut new weed cloth to lay down. Jerry dug a couple trenches to level the boxes and we were done!

 new location!

We moved the Jade plants to the former garden area because they seemed to get a little too scorched last year. I am really excited about the new setup! I plan to keep it simple with tomatoes, squash, cucumber, peppers, basil, cilantro, and lettuce. We just need to get our dirt mix (we'll use a combination of black kow, black hen, and vermiculite with some peat moss) and we'll be ready to plant!

new home for the jades!

Oh yeah, and don't even ask me about seeds. I have no idea. I deal only with transplants. If you really want to get dirty, check out Paige at Pocket Smiles for some great gardening tips! What are you planting this year? Will you start from seed? Or will you be harvesting the grocery garden?

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