We also started growing some potted vegetables on the back patio but yet to finish our cage (to protect from vermin, birds, and the homeless). But we realized the cage is too small already so we have to do some serious modification - and soon, as evidenced in the photos! Now I just hope some of this dramatic, week-long cloud coverage actually brings some rain this weekend.
Lessons learned:
- To this day, my folks continue to teach me new things when I thought all that ended in my early twenties.
- Inflicting mass insecticide toward a grossly infested ant population requires double duty with both ant sprayer and granules.
- Putting mulch around our jasmine brought it back to life and it is now "thriving."
- We used newspaper on the front bed (new) and side garage bed (new) under the mulch / planting soil to prevent weeds. The white rocks in the front bed haven't had any pop up, but the ones that do elsewhere around the house are really annoying. So we'll see how this goes as a preventative measure!
Front / Left side bed - Some concrete block alternating positions with "blue elf" aloe, surrounded by red lava rock ($4/bag, about 3.5 bags). It's more Beetlejuice-y looking than your regular aloe plant... Horse tail reed framed by some spare bricks we found in the backyard that match the house. Got these at MAAS Nursery in Seabrook.
Side garage bed with some plant that was already planted and survived the FREEZE OF 2010!!! so we decided to keep it. This bed has regular aloe vera surrounded by white rock which has since been covered completely with white rock.
The Patio Garden
The birth of a banana pepper....
The birth of tomatoes....
The birth of a bell pepper...
The birth of a jalapeno...
And some random pecan I found in the yard!
That's all for now... Soon to come: Dramatic office makeover #1: From Pepto-Bismal Pink Splattered Walls to Super-mod Office in 9 weeks or less!
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