She’s Young and With It

One of those tomatoes that I thought would never ripen is finally ripening. These are some fat little tomatoes.

This jasmine smells so good. Hopefully these vines will grow, grow, grow this year.

Hi Happy Readers,

All I can say is that I seem to use Facebook instead of writing blog posts these days. I swore I would never use Facebook. One day I caved and opened an account and now I spend way too much time on there. There is so much to write about though, especially now that it is spring and there are flowers blooming and gardening to be had. So I promise to try to write more substance here rather than status updates on Facebook.

Anyway, in honor of Earth Day, I present some photos from my recently installed vegetable garden. Grow your own veggies!

I am not sure these guys will ever ripen, but I am holding out hope.

A bell pepper, which I may remove because the plant is not going anywhere and the pepper has black spots on it.

These are the raised beds that we built. The left one has veggies and the right one has herbs. We put a fence around it because the dirt was very appealing to Sherman. This photo was taken a month ago so the plants are a bit bigger now.

This is Chim Chim, because he is cute. We might be fostering a cat soon. Stay tuned!

I have trees on the brain. I guess it is that time of year! We planted a Mexican Redbud to compensate a little for losing the chinaberry. The Redbud is about six feet tall. We splurged on a bigger tree because it still stings when we think about the size of the chinaberry, which you can sort of see in this photo. Sigh.

We plan to add a second redbud to the right side of the driveway and then maybe two Anacacho Orchids on the left side of the driveway. We also plan to begin planting some shrubs (Sweet Olive maybe?) along the sides of our fence in the backyard. Do shrubs go with clumping bamboo? We need some privacy between the neighboring yards.

We also need to add a few trees to the backyard. All in good time, I suppose.

I wish we had unlimited funds to do it all at once. I was walking through an older area of East Austin today and found myself envying all the yards with dense greenery around them. One day!