Few Bits

First blueberry of the season! Feeding and watering my blueberry bush all winter is starting to pay off.

Look at this lil’ guy!

The IKEA hack trellis has worked out very well.

My garden has exploded over the past couple weeks.  It went from this,

to this:

Now instead of singing Tears for Fears “Sowing the Seeds of Love” in the garden, I sing this:

Tonight’s salad of spicy greens and herbs straight from the garden.

UGH WHAT ARE THESE? I went out to kill caterpillars tonight in the garden and found these bugs.  Are they good bugs? Or bad bugs? 

Summer is over.  BOOOOO.  I had a very productive summer, though.  I took the summer session at El Camino College and built out my entire patio. 

So let’s go through the projects, one by one.  

Remember when I said I was going to build these? Well, I did.  And I planted a bunch of herbs, most of which are growing like gangbusters.  Some have been eaten by evil caterpillars.  I like my color choices much, much better, don’t you?  Here’s a comparison:  

I built all 18 planter boxes in one class.  

After that, I built some garden beds that ended up getting featured on Instructables.  Here’s what they look like now, painted and with growing veggies.  I used the leftover paint from my TV stand project.

With leftover scrap, I built a mini version for the cats.

I saw this project online and knew that’s what I wanted for my blueberry bush.  So I made it out of free wood from the scrapyard and painted it with leftover paint from the planter boxes.

Got a table and chairs from cb2 and tied it all together with a chartreuse outdoor rug!

DONE! 

Finally, some progress.  I harvested some of my herbs and hung them to dry.  Dill, Oregano, and Thyme.

I planted these as seeds back in July.  This was a great resource on how to dry and store herbs.

The summer squash is an overachiever.

Carrot seedlings have been decimated.  Parsnips are ok for now. Tomatoes are strugs.

I don’t know what is attacking the broccoli.

 Something has laid eggs.  

What is this guy doing?

UPDATE TO THE UPDATE: I went out with a flashlight tonight. Found a bunch of caterpillars munching away.  They tried to curl up in a ball and pretend they were rocks but I was all, “No way, a-holes!” scooped them out of the garden and into the garbage disposal.  DIE, CATERPILLARS!

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I made a mini version of the garden beds that I buit this summer from scrap wood and planted catmint (like cat nip) and cat treats.  I let the monsters outside today and they went right for it.  Maybe this will stop Dash from dashing next door and invading the neighbors’ patio.  Fingers crossed!

UPDATE: Dash is now running around the apartment, meowing at nothing.  I think he is high as shit.  Stasia is not high.  She’s just like, really enjoying the texture of the pillow on her face right now, you know? 

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