what a month it's been...

with all of the rainfall and the cooler temperatures during may, our garden is lagging behind a bit.  this week we are finally picking lettuce and peas and our other plants are just beginning to fill out.

we decided to have the house treated for termites-strictly preventative and this forced us to move the herb garden to the other side of the walkway.  darry built a bed quickly using cinder blocks and we filled it using the lasagna method.  now we have all of the herbs we want to cook with in this temporary bed.  it is my goal to fill all of the holes as well.  right now a few of them have thyme, flowers, mint and rosemary in them but i think it would look nicer if enough plants droop over the sides to cover the blocks. 

some of the lettuce plants in the garden

bell peppers and habaneros, the hot ones are the small plants on the right.

this years peaches

hollyhocks

asian lillies

the planter boxes at the end of the driveway are bursting with nasturtiums

coneflowers

the big bed we are creating along the property line.  if the jerk next door isn't going to mow, we will just come up with a combination of plants to hide the ugly mess!!!