Armed with information and color-coded photo provided by astute reader and gardener Jess, we knew this much: yellow are peppers and the red are weeds and the purple are in question, but probably weeds. [If you click on this photo, you'll get a better view of the colored circles that Jess did to help us figure out these plants.]
We made an important discovery about the things Jess circled in purple (see photo above); they are not weeds -- they are RADISHES! This is particularly funny since Jess's partner in crime, Stephan, planted these "joke radishes," as he called them, all over the garden. We are indeed enjoying our joke radishes quite a lot.
So I went to town pulling up all sorts of things. There was a lot of grass, and A LOT of shamrocks and lots of little trees sprouting from acorns that squirrels had hidden in the garden. Check out the bucket o' weeds:
And here is the improved garden:
OK, maybe Carter lounging in the lettuce patch is not an improvement, but at least he's not sitting on the herbs (as he was earlier today). There are still some weeds (especially in the lettuce patch to the lower right), but we've gotten rid of a lot of the nasty ones.
By far the most exciting development today was the discovery of BLUEBERRIES on our blueberry bushes:
We each ate a few that were ripe and they were DELICIOUS! We need to get some netting material fast to keep the birds from discovering and devouring our treat.
Today was also filled with another unexpected treat. We were invited to the birthday party of one of our 9-year old neighbors. The birthday party included a live animal show, complete with a python, hedgehog, alligator, and other sundry creatures. It was all pretty amazing. Oh, and there was ice cream cake too. Pretty awesome. We should go to more 9aery- olds' birthday parties.
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