The garden is starting to come together. We're getting the beds filled and the grass that we layed after the pool construction has taken.
This is from the west corner of the back yard looking east. We moved the bird bath to the bed near the fence.
My lemon tree is still not looking very "tree" like but is laden with delicious lemons!
We have had a lot of Monarch butterflies this year. They stop in our area during their migration to Mexico. Here is the monarch caterpillar and butterfly sharing the same plant, aptly named butterfly weed. The plant is very resilient and needs to be. A couple of caterpillars can eat all of the leaves off and yet they still survive!
Here's the "Condon" bed in the east corner of the yard. It's a large bed that we're slowing filling up.
Out the front the pine trees are going through a growing spurt. They've shot up about 3 feet since we moved in. You can also see my skull halloween lights :)
The veggie beds are looking better. We've done a lot with the soil to try and get some nutrients in there. So far the beans, peas, radishes, carrots and lettuce that we have here are keeping their bright green colour so that's a good sign. We'll be harvesting beans by the end of this week :)
This is the first bed that we did. We've had a couple of plants not make it. It's a difficult one as it's part shade and can get very wet when it rains. The log that is at the front is left over from our tree that we had to cut down. It didn't make it with the combination of Ike and the drought.
