new residents in the garden..

we found four today.. big ones and little ones! hopefully they're eating the bad bugs, and not my lady bugs!

baby elepant ears!

these are our babies from last year.. they just poked their heads out this week.. i can't wait for the rain!

also my fuschia is about to explode!

mobile test!

this is a house in plano that i care for the plants..





this is my favoritest atrium.




and my front porch. =)

more little babies!

first baby jalapeno.



baby bell peppers.



ehehe itty bitty cucumber!



lookit how small it is! lookit!




the strawberries are coming out a bit deformed.. i think they're planted too deep, but i'm just going to leave them be.



aand the tomatoes are coming right along!

scarborough!

man. so yeah, jasmine and i spent like two hours in the petting zoo. last year the little piggies wouldnt let me pick them up.. this year they slept on me for almost 45.




i also got to stare down the snotty barrel of this elephants nose. =) it got a little fresh and grabbed jasmine's boober!

one more for the day!

i was pretty upset that my lady bugs had crapped out.. but apparently they were all horny and chock full of eggs! i have tons and tons of baby lady bugs crawling around the yard.


hooray for lady bug orgies!










also, clapton loves catnip.

keeping occupied.

when i got home today i cleaned out the ol' greenhouse. i drug all of my plants out into the lawn (which peeved josh, and forced him to build.) and i found this crazy ass bug. i have no clue if that thing is his peter or what .. cuz if it's a stinger, i think it could impregnate me.




then there was mister squirrel stealing from the bird feeder next door.. he's the one that tinkles on me when i stand under him.

and then my little hustle i'm trying to start.. thrift store vases plus cheap succulents equals money hopefully!





here's mister josh's finished product.. a raised planter bed for my container plants. we'll be keeping them off the ground this year!




i haven't seen mama cardinal around a lot yet, but spring's just started!

slowly, slowly ..

i made a little friend..
we found him when we were building. he was living under a fence panel!

yay! we have our first babies!

the tomatoes have started popping! the first two are better bush tomatoes. =D









and this is a liiiittle baby roma tomato.




aaand the first bloom on the cucumbers!





hooray for horticulture!

let these ladies loose!

we've noticed a couple of creepy crawlies in the garden lately.. and we're trying to do this thing organic like.. so i decided to purchase some predator bugs to let loose.. lady bugs.
awesome.
9.99 for 1750 little ladies.
this instructions said to wait until dusk, spray the plants down then let the lady bugs loose.. soo we did!






they were packaged in a mesh bag.. i had to dig in.










if you click on this picture and zoom in.. you can see hundreds of little red speckles. =)





a few close ups..













so this morning at daybreak i went out to check things out.. they were all curled up under the leafs and such. super cute.







and when we got home from work.. we found about four left in the garden! so ten bucks flew away in a day! hopefully they'll return at night.. if so, you will be updated.. if not.. don't buy lady bugs. =)