Weekend gardening

This weekend we finally got the Earth Boxes and some other stuff. Everything is so full of life right now the trees are getting greener and greener by the day. The only thing that could use some color is the grass! We are in a drought and rain is hard to come by, so therefore the lack of green.

Our backyard is very boring. I wish we had a fence, so Sarah and the dogs could run around however they wanted, but that will be a project for next summer I think.

But after we were done yesterday I actually enjoyed sitting out in the back. I got a wrought iron "couch" bench and a table, and it was not too bad sitting there and reading the Sunday paper while Sarah played in her sandbox and the dogs were napping on the grass, tied up to a big tree.

So now I have regular tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, red and green bell peppers, jalapenos, chili peppers, lemon grass, green onions, Thai basil, Italian basil, rosemary, Greek oregano, thyme, chives, parsley, dill, cilantro, salad. Should hold us over for a while.

Sarah at the Earth Box Research Center

Checking out some of the plants they had there

Seems to be a popular place, it was very crowded

Tomatoes and more tomatoes

The back entrance at the center

Our patio in the afternoon sun, it was 30 degrees and very lovely!

Tomatoes and four kinds of peppers. These are indeterminate tomatoes, they grow to be HUGE

Herbs

Sarah playing in her old sandbox