Gardening

Last year I spent two months in India, which were two amazing months!! You can read a little more about that experience on http://monsoonlessons-bonnie.blogspot.com/.

But, it did mean that I had no time to either plant a garden or keep it and let's just say that had was suffering from severe withdrawals this winter, especially since the winter turned out to be such a loooooooooong and coooooooooold one!

So, this summer I got a little ambitious and had a little larger area tilled up (thank you Roger Lamp!). That of course means, that with the weeds from last year and the newly tilled up area from this year, weeding is going to be a bummer!

But, for now I am enjoying my garden. I have all the hot weather crops is such as tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, peas, beans, carrots, celery, potatoes, corn, cucumber, cantaloupes, and of course, my little strawberry patch. I will plant he cooler crops, cauliflower, broccoli, and Brussels sprout soon, but they need to mature when the worst of the summer heat is over. Because my dirt is so clumpy this year, I planted my lettuce in containers over by my herbs.

This is my little curry leaf tree. I ordered it last summer after I came back from India because I learned that it was a main ingredient in so many wonderful dishes. You can buy the leaves here, but this is so much cooler :-) I kept it alive for a winter already (which is amazing, considering I really don't have a great thumb!).