Star Tribune reports today that Twin Cities law trades traditional black plastic lawn bags for compostible ones.
I’m pretty sure looking the below foliage in my yard makes Arika randy. I’m impressed with the results so far since this is my first year gardening. My mom claims I have a green thumb. Meh. Main garden has cucumbers, cranberry beans, green onions, peas, spinach, and carrots. Beds surrounding the house contain big boy and cherry tomatoes, green peppers, purple and regular basil. The other beds have raspberries, squash, melons, beets, and rhubarb. Squirrels ate my strawberries. There are lots of flowery jive going on as well including my rose budding, the bleeding hearts, day and tiger lilys blooming, and some unknown things about to bloom.
A week and a half ago on Easter Jon, Arika, and I cleaned out all the leaves and mulch out of the front flower bed. At that time, very few plants were poking up through the dirt. In spite of this, it sure was exciting finding them. It was like the easter bunny visiting last fall and we only finding the eggs now… however, they luckily were not rotton and nasty. Ha. Anywho, they have been popping up like crazy over the last week.
The adventures in gardening continue. A few weeks ago, Arika and I planted a bunch of seeds. Since then, we planted a few more. With the awesome sunny warm weather in the last week, the plants popped up like they had somewhere to be. We have tomatoes, poppys, asparagus, basil, mint, green peppers, fennel, oregano, and Arika planted a few seeds from some apples i bought. The next step is to transplant the sprouties into separate pots since each little hills has 3-10 sprouts coming up in it. Yaaaay for green thumbs.