Rain and Gardening

I am on holidays and apart from running away for some peace and quiet, I had only two real jobs to do. The first was to fix my car (happening tomorrow) as well as wash and detail it. The second was to clean up the herb garden as spring is not far away from springing.

In relation to the car, it has been raining for two days so I can almost call it clean. the detailing .... well it has been raining :-}

The garden, well I was sitting on the front porch watching the rain and trying to decide what was more pleasurable - working in the garden (assuming it ever stopped raining) or watching the rain. And then, like a light bulb coming over my head I asked myself why I couldn't garden in the rain? After all, I am the girl who loves jumping in puddles!

So I put on my crocs and, in my nearly favorite pyjamas, I got to work. I moved the sage to next to the lavender (in front of the oregano). I have clumped the chives. I removed the basil (I was going to let it regrow cos it got to over 4' last year but saved some seed so I will just start again. My garlic experiment is still travelling along. The mint (under the palm in the top corner) was in the wrong spot and I am not sure it will come back so I might need to start that one again. I am considering whether I have room for dill - probably next to the lemon grass (that was less that 1' high when I planted it less than a year ago) and am now tossing up between seeds or seedlings. The chillies are still producing but not growing much bigger (not that it is the time of the year for growth) so I have fertilized them. I picked some more lavender to put in my vase int he kitchen. I think I might start drying little bundles - maybe even taking cuttings ... actually I could do that for the rosemary too ...

I will go to the nursery tomorrow and get some seed raising mix and put the basil seeds in and get them motoring. Might even put a variety of mint seeds in too.

So, consider this the 'before' photo of my garden, and I will update the photo as the flourishing begins. And don't forget it was a barren wasteland last September and I have already had many and ongoing bountiful harvests