Garden Update

This afternoon we harvested our first non-herb goodies from our garden.  Look at our pretty radishes!  They are pink and purple.  I can't wait to see what the next ones look like.  The slugs pretty much ate a lot of our herb seedlings and a lot of our arugula.  Hopefully the rain will finally stop and we will see some serious progress with our plants.  But seriously, aren't they pretty radishes?

Yesterday Cliff and I bought a new planter for the cottage.  We have been looking for some nice big ones all year.  We were at Jerry's Home Improvement and they had their pots on sale (25%-75% off).  With the discount, the nice blue pot was in our price range.  We got a few more herbs (the orange mint smells amazing) and an ornamental grass (Cliff likes those) to go inside.  We also planted chocolate mint, pineapple mint, apple mint, and "the best" mint near our stairs.  

Cliff and I have decided to start a new garden plot next to the cottage.  This garden plot will be the home to okra, collards, butternut squash, and zucchini.  We hope to be done with it tomorrow afternoon.  It is a whole lot of work to double dig a garden plot!  The section was once a laurel and blackberry thicket.  There are so many roots.  My whole body is tired.

We also bought more flower seeds.  We are going to plant them all over the yard.  We have California poppies (my favorite!), oriental poppies, columbines, bachelors buttons, cosmos, and morning glories.

Cliff and I looked at each other tonight and realized we are living the dream.  It was nice outside, we were both digging in the dirt, we were planning dinner to feature our goodies and the dog was behaving.  It was a nice night.