Happy Earth Day!!

Today is rainy, rainy, rainy!!  I love it because for the past week, it's been dry and hot and even with daily deep watering, the plants were looking a bit sad.  Everything seems to be growing alright except for my spinach.  I think I'm going to count them as a loss and replant spinach for the fall.  My kale was recently attacked by cabbage worms but thankfully, I've been able to pull them off before they totally eat all of the plants.  My cucumbers and zucchini just started sprouting and I planted my napa cabbage.  I also got a surprise this morning...

What's sad is that this little bunny used to have a partner in crime but I haven't seen him/her for a while.  I'm suspecting the other bunny may have gotten run over or eaten (we have hawks hanging around). They used to hop over from across the street (we've watched them) and make a bee-line to our yard.  I was going to put up a fence to keep the critters out, but I feel like I can figure out a way to garden harmoniously with the wildlife in the neighborhood.  The birds that we attract seem to be eating the bugs, the rabbit seems to be eating only the weeds and grass, and I've started to see ladybugs and hover flies hanging about.  I think I can do this. 

Happy Earth Day Everyone!!!

So Far, So Good.

Sorry for the absence.  I've been completely absorbed with gardening at the moment.  I almost feel rushed trying to get things into my raised beds before summer-like weather really hits us here.  And it seems like it will hit us REALLY soon!  I think we're supposed to be close to the mid to upper 80s today. Way too hot for April.  I'm really hoping my cool weather veggies don't just wilt and die before I get to eat them.  So some great surprises happened in my gardening misadventures.  Months ago, we had a crazy, windy storm that blew over my greenhouse.  My columbine seeds ended up completely mixed up and all over the place.  I thought I had totally lost these expensive ass seeds but of course, I kept the Ziploc bags with hopes that something would sprout.  Well, it did a month later!! I had a single plant growing but alas it was not to be.  The poor thing just up and died not too long ago BUT I had dumped the rest of the seed starting mix with the columbine seeds in a flat tray and bought another columbine variety to sprinkle onto the mix (I hate to waste good seed starting mix).  Lo and behold.... by the end of March, all of these columbines started to sprout!!