a nice way to start earth day

[toastykitten]

We saw some people coming in our yard to take pictures of our trees and plants and stuff. I started to go out to say hi to them, but they were out the driveway by the time I was at the front door.

Some more surprises from our yard:

We have rosemary! It is a small plant, hanging out with some pretty flowers along our side wall.

We have a huge sunflower plant in the back.

We discovered two more tomato plants in the back, which is great, because I had our gardener rip out the one in the front, and there was one that's already done.

The previous renters had a compost pile in the back, which we are currently adding to. Apparently they really enjoyed gardening. We also bought some ladybugs from the farmers' market so they can eat our aphids. However, in releasing them, we may have been too hasty, because we saw a bunch of dead ones yesterday. Ants are also really quick at eating everything - the ladybugs' bodies have almost completely disappeared today. It's kind of disgusting, though efficient.

The artichokes are coming in, and they are delicious. I cut four of them off on Sunday and we just steamed them.