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.
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!
