Getting Ready for More

So, now that it's gotten warmer and  many of the plants are in survival mode more than producing mode we've be looking to what's next.  What's next for us and our new way of thinking about our yard and what it does for us.  We want some fruit trees.  We want more planters.  And so we're prepping some areas.  Between our house and the nearest neighbor we had planted some Eucalyptus trees and some similar smelling bushes.  We knew how large those trees could get, but the calming smell of the leaves clouded our judgement.  And now we're pulling them out.  Boy, our compost smells good right now!  We're still trying to decide which types of fruit trees to get, which ones we need a friend to pollinate, which ones take care of that themselves.  Those kinds of things.  In the mean time, we're amending the soil.  

We've added three new plots to the yard.  They run the length of the large planter, but have pathways through.  We learned from the long run that we would step through or have to run around to get to a crying kid, and a place to do that without worrying about what we were crushing would be nice.

 We also got lucky to stumble on a 50% off sale on seeds at Star Nursery.  They're switching to a new supplier and are clearing out their stock.  We got more than enough to start our fall crops and we should be good to go for next spring.  It was definitely a tough deal to pass up.