=http://img28.photobucket.com/... align=center Yesterday was a lovely day, so I finally made it outside and I planted my tomatos and peppers that I grew from seed. Unfortunately there were only 3 tomato plants that were healthy looking enough to plant. I'll just have to buy a couple more from the nursery. *Note to self: Start Peppers from seed in January but don't start tomatos until the end of February at the earliest.* They look pretty pathetic. If they don't start looking better in the next couple weeks, I'll get some more. The peppers look good though so I planted six of those. (pictures to come--- the ones I took did not turn out well)
I also planted some lettuce seeds and took note of a couple of pea plants starting to pop out of the ground, even despite some of them being unearthed by 3-4 straight days of rain. Today it is drizzling, which should be good for the newly planted stuff because I didn't goive it too much water (knowing that it would rain today).
Above are some pictures I took of some things that were flowering around my yard yesterday. The first picture is of a flowering bush. I have no idea what kind of bush it is. The first year we lived here the japanese beetles had a feild day chewing that thing to pieces. I had to cut it almost to the ground. The second year I fought back and sprayed it with Seven pesticide when the beetles started feeding. I managed to save it and this year it is HUGE :). The second picture is of some snowbells. The third is my favorite varigated VA Bluebells and the fourth is an apricot cupped daffodil. I planted apricot daffodils all along the front of the house with grape hyacynths in front of them the year we moved in. This year they are coming up totally yellow! I don't understand. My father said it's because they react to the chemicals that oak trees give off? I've never heard of that before.
PS... I battled two snakes yesterday and wrote about it on [url=http://dumblondegirl.tblog.co...]my other blog [/url] if you're interested.
