Two-Thousand-Eleven

Happy 1st of May!

This month, Erica is vegan and Joanna is going to try very hard not to feed her gelatin-filled vitamins. Oh wait, that already happened. Last night, we fell asleep looking at Johnny's Selected Seeds and the Seed Savers Exchange catalogues. We had a busy day today making vegan sausages, banana-granola waffles, and (soon) a wicker basket.

Back yard at Jona's house - pre-expansion. The bed is now twice as big!

Today, J-Kale and E-den achieved the following:

• Purchased seeds and soil from Gesthemane Garden Center in Andersonville
• Seeds from Botanical Interests: Kale (red winter), Lavender (purple ribbon), Catnip, Beets (bull's blood), Basil (italian large leaf), Pepper (chile thai hot), and Spinach (bloomsdale), Sprouts - Mung Bean (for Erica to eat while she's vegan - Botanical Interests)
• 2 40-liter bags of soil with fertilizer (brand started with a B?)
• Seeded a window box with kale and lavender
• Seeded a small pot with cat nip (for the cats...and maybe for tea?)
• Buried some compost junk under the SW corner of Jona's front yard bed
• Dug up weeds, found some rocks, discovered lots of tree roots

We also made a garden plan for Jona's house! Note the dirty finger prints on the left side...

Robins came to say hello. We maybe saved a worm's life by burying it. But it already had a gash in it from the robin, so who knows.

Update on other plants:

• Large pot seeded with basil (lime, saved from last year) around beginning to mid-April, now have a few small sprouts (indoors)
• Large pot seeded with 4-colorful-bells pepper mix (seeds from last year), Olds Seed company (one small sprout) ...placed next to the radiator, but they probs just need warmer soil even now
• Small pot of last year's lime basil, planted probs in Feb - ha! - which has several large but lanky plants holding on for dear life
• Small pot of merigolds around beginning to mid-April, looking good, several sprouted
• Detroit Dark Red Beets (Weeks Seed Company, a year old) in backyard after double digging the area and topping of with a very small later of potting soil (will need to amend soon). They're doing well, lots have sprouted in spite of being lots of rain and lots of coldness. We love beets. They're little beasts!

Geraniums to the left, lime basil to the right. Neither is getting quite enough sun, but they're hanging in there. This pictures is a couple of weeks old.