What a difference 9 weeks makes

Wow, the garden is abundant with green foliage and flowers. Can you believe the difference? It's been really foggy so I'm surprised things are still growing.



I have tomato flowers and squash blossoms that are lovely.




The worm tea is really stinky so have been afraid to use it. I don't think it's supposed to smell so bad. I mean it's worms eating fruit and veggies. How stinky could their "leavings" be?






Onions and leeks are gorgeous. Almost too gorgeous to pull out. Beans are slowly moving along. They've been attacked by some evil pest. Maybe pincher bugs or pill bugs. My beer catchers worked great for a while and now I think they(the evil bugs) know it's there so just avoid the brew. I've also starting pinching the tomato suckers(new growth between the stems). I've also got a little too much foliage and may start pruning but that's a whole other bag of questions so will get out my faithful Sunset Garden Bible and do some light reading.

Naughty and Nice

Neighbors spread redwood chips around the beds and it's all pretty now. The plants are doing great even though we've been shrouded in dreary days of fog.


Neighbor also went out and as he put it, "bought a hammock chair for the garden". It arrived and was set up in the yard. I don't know about you, but I think I should be wearing black leather and carrying a whip while sitting in that chair. Or spanking whoever is...



Neighbor(who has been very busy) bought a compost worm bin. A few days later 200 red worms arrived. They are happily eating all of our leftover bits although it took me a week to gather enough courage to lift the cover and look at them. Ugh, me and worms...yuck! Spiders I can deal with. Worms...I am getting the creeps just typing this. So, poured a little tea out to see if it was working and voila, we have tea although really stinky tea. And I mean really stinky. I hope that's normal.

All in all, a very productive week in our little garden.