Garden high:
~ Too many to count, including petunias that I grew from seeds with such lovely pastelly flowers and a delicate candy fragrance
Garden low:
~ Continued poor nutrients in one SFG bed. The leaves are yellow, the plants are sad. My container tomotoes (in a power-mix of worm castings, city compost (oops), peat and Black Earth Topsoil) are taking off like crazy, but the ones in the raised bed are still struggling... waah. And both SFG beds are overrun with potato/sow beetles. Supposedly they don't damage living plants, just eat decaying matter, but it makes me think maybe the melange of organic materials I loaded up the beds with needed another season to compost before planting in it... quick spraying with kelp tea helps muster them a bit, but I don't want to be out spraying every other day. I read in a garden book today, it's about healing the soil and choosing plants that will thrive, not standing over them, force-feeding them to keep them alive. :-(((
Oy! Can our lawn count as today's "garden low"? Haven't said much about it, but the clover has pretty much taken over. Ha! I could make a clever rhyme out of that if I weren't so sad... last year, I was so smug, I even said at one point that we had the best grass on the block (it's a pretty scrubby-looking block!). And now: 90% clover. Waah! At least it hasn't needed mowing - Ted will mow off the clover heads tomorrow, I hope, so at least it will look better.
More pics tomorrow if I survive another round of swim registration.
<3 J
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