Yesterday I had help digging out for the new green house and for the bed that will run along side it and beyond. 
All ready to go.
Well, not quite. I measured wrong and just came in from digging out another trench of grass 4 inches by 9 feet. Ugh. I’m sure the green house guys thought I was a signt, in my red flowered boots, grunting and digging!
They are assembling the frame now. Once they get the base in, I’m gonna run out and take a few more pictures!
Ok, so it’s not Spring, but with evening temps at 59 and daytime highs at 85, it feels like Spring.
This is where they were, out in the open and messy. My goal is to move all of this into a cabinet and clear this space.
Buckets and piles and wagonloads of stuff…STUFF everywhere! And it seems to multiply, kind of like paperclips…
Mmmhuuuwaaaaaa!
Isn’t this cute? I give inspirational credit to Frances of Faire Garden, Annie of The Transplantable Rose and Carol of May Dreams Gardens for all their little garden fairy references.
And, here, she is — speaking of the Fairy House-builder! Going haunting as a puppy with her Daddy, who was a mailman with torn pants! Their costumes were so easy to make and I loved that she didn’t want to be anyone or thing that was commercial or required a crown!
Yumm-O as Rachel Ray would say! Tomatoes are a’comin’ on the vine. These cooler evening temps helped the blooms set and now they are growing like mad, hoping to beat the first frost. Here that’s normally not until early December, but we’ve had unseasonably cold temps at night this week – into the 40s at my house, so they’d better grow quickly!
They are pretty tasty — not quite as sweet as last year’s but we are enjoying them.
Picking pumpkins on a perfect Fall day….which one should I choose?
Is this face spooky enough for you?
Can you make eyelashes for me, Dusty?
Man, these things are heavy!
Ah, there it goes, in its rightful place.
See that pretty little yellow bloom? That’s a Mexican Mint Marigold. Just started blooming yesterday.
It’s pretty and the next photo shows you that it will soon be full of bright blooms.
BUT. (There’s always a but, isn’t there?) I planted these 3 little plants last summer when we put in this bed. The purpose of the bed was to provide a place for lots of colorful vines to cover the fence. This picture below is what it looked like last September — everything behaving according to PLAN. See the beautiful orange Mexican Flame Vine behind the little Marigolds? Nice, isn’t it?
Well, this is how it looks now. NO Flame vine, spindly leftover morning glories. All thanks to the thirsty, overgrown, block the sprinkler Marigolds who have hogged the bed.
So, after they bloom – OUT they come, to be replaced in the Spring by something much lower and slower growing so that the Flame Vine – which is still there, but just 6 leaves at the base of the plant – can reach up to the sky along the fence. I don’t know WHERE they are going, mind you, but they ARE going. I will have things according to plan, I will, I will!
And here are some signs of our cool 55 degree night last night. The Plumeria is not happy about those cool, damp temps — see the yellowing leaves inside there?
It’s a desperate cry for the Greenhouse to get here soon!
12 days ’til Greenhouse Day!