May Updates

The garden is growing and there is so much new every day in our little backyard garden. The squash/zucchini have gone from seedlings to plants with blooms and now growing plants with baby veggies growing on them! The eggplant has bloomed its very first beautiful purple flower. The sunflower has sprouted to over 6 feet tall with a flower over a foot in diameter (though sadly it's pointed in the opposite direction from view). Most amazingly the tomato plants have grown and their yellow blooms have now turned in to baby tomatoes. Today something amazing happened, we picked our very first tomato! This baby is so beautiful and red it may have actually over ripened on the vine. All the same we're going to enjoy eating it tonight! And last but not least (well maybe) the funky red bugs have turned from their ant like pupae form to adult (looking) Assassin bugs, and have now moved from the Silver Fir Tree to the Black Seaman.

Take a gander at some of the photos below and see how much our garden has grown!

Starting off strong, isn't she beautiful!

Yay for (good) bugs

Remember those bugs I was talking about? Well according to Native Nurseries, via my descriptions and then photos, those bugs are Assassin bug pupae. So any holes in the Silver Fir Tree's leaves aren't actually from those nasty looking bugs but are in fact from other bugs that the Assassin bugs are eating. They've reassured me twice now that these are good bugs, so I'm going to take their word for it. But I can't deny that I'm still a tiny bit nervous that somehow they'll turn out to be bad bugs and I'll regret having left them along so long because they'll have killed that plant. Sometimes you just can't help being a bit paranoid, even when you know your fears probably won't come true...