Garden Medley

I love it! My garden is off to a simply gorgeous start this year. The weather has been cool and sunny, and the plants have just really taken off.

I credit some of this to how my husband changed things around this year. Since this past winter we had a couple freezes kill off basically all the decorative plants in the yard (San Diego area - no one plants freeze resistant plants here!), he changed the containers around and now the plants start from containers, but can get their roots into the actual soil. The containers have a mesh at the bottom now, and are on top of where the decorative plants once grew.

The difference has been simply amazing. Everything just took off after we planted. Lost our seedlings to the last freeze, but when we bought young plants and put them in the ground - wow! Everything is growing beautifully.

I’ve been watching the bee situation in my area carefully, though. For those of you not familiar with it, there’s something called colony collapse disorder that has killed off about a quarter of all the commercial behives in the United States. Pretty scary stuff when you think about it, especially since no one knows the cause. It’s being worked on, and the problem is being narrowed down bit by bit.

Here are some more garden pictures. The tomatoes are looking especially promising this year.

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