Yesterday we spent most of the day in the back flower beds. We pulled out the pansies, which were on their last legs and replanted the beds with salvias and celosia. I also got a couple of Asiatic Lilies and planted them. There's one already in the flower bed, so the two we bought just compliment that. We also got some peppers and some basil, along with a tomato. I'm happy to have my garden in. I've really missed getting my hands dirty!
This is what the flower bed looked like before we installed the plants and the mulch I went out and picked up. I got Cedar mulch because it has "bug conrolling properties" and it smells pretty. That, and it'll help improve the soil from everything I've heard.
While digging toward the back of this bed (where the light green bush is at the back of the picture, toward the grass), I found some sort of volunteer plant. It looks like it's some sot of bulb grown plant. We'll see what it springs up into. I decided not to pull it out. I'll see if it grows anything wonderful when it sprouts.
We also planted a couple of pepper plants and a dill plant in this flower bed. The dill is over by the house, near the golden plant at the back of the bed. I hope it'll do well. We planted it because we like to eat salmon with dill and it's nice to have that fresh dill in the garden. I'm also going to plant some basil and enjoy that. The tomato is in a pot by itself. I hope that I get some good tomatoes from it. I bought the plant based on what the container said, that it can grow well in a container.
I have to admit that my favorite time of day is when the sun is just barely peeking over the horizon. It's that time just before full sunrise, when it's neither dark nor light, but kind of a "twilight" if you will. It's usually coolest at that time of day and if there's a breeze blowing, it's the softest breeze of the day. I enjoy being able to get up early and go out on the patio to watch the sunrise. We're lucky in that our apartment faces East--I see the sunrise every day that I'm home, when the sun is shining. I can take a cup of coffee (if I get it made early enough!) out on the porch and just stand at the rail, watching the colors play across the sky. It's somehow soothing and invigorating at the same time. My little garden is my companion at this time of day. I like to go out and sit out there and just enjoy the sun rise.
Tomorrow's Easter Sunday. It's also our 17th anniversary. We've been together as a couple for 19 years. We're not really planning anything. With our luck, we'll both sit on the couch and enjoy being "old" together--he'll be on his computer playing a game and I'll be surfing the Internet on mine. LOL!! The cats will probably find any available patch of sunlight to lounge around in and the kids will play Wii or something else. They like to do that. Amanda wants to go to her friend's house today and spend the night. I told her that if her friend's mother said it was okay, that's fine with me. I WILL, however, get into her room and toss out all the old clothes she's not wearing, plus pick up everything on the floor. I'm tired of looking at it (again!). She says "It's fine to me!" whenever I mention it to her. She's not quite figured out that if Mom says the room is annoying, ya better LISTEN!! hahaha!!
Today was my "first" gardening day. Here in Texas, temperatures have been changing and winter is no more. Officially on Friday, it'll be Spring anyway. We've seen our last frost with the snow twice in the first week of this month.
Today my hubby took me out and let me get some plants and planter boxes. I'm now the proud cultivator of patio tomatoes, peppers (yellow banana), two different kinds of basils, a catnip, two strawberries, a citronella (mosquito plant) and sugar snap pea seeds. I've been on a snow pea pod kick lately. I enjoy eating those darned things! Hopefully they'll grow for me!
