We’ve been tending to the garden unceremoniously with mixed results.  I lost 8 of the 12 tomato plants I originally hoped would yield a tomato fiest, but I’ve since planted new ones.  Try, try again.  The bed of greens has been moving very slowly with the lettuce, broccoli, carrots, spinach, bok choy and leeks inching along.

Everything else has done quite well.  In fact, we’ve already harvested our first golden squash!

But the majority of the hard labor has gone into landscaping the front fence where we have tried to launch a maintenance-free, draught-resistant variety including rosemary and provence lavender.

The bigger my belly gets, the more difficult it gets to weed, so let’s hope the mulch helps reduce the amount of time I spend bent over!  And many thanks to Mr. Erwin who did the majority of the back-breaking work to remove the grass.  Along the inside of the fence, we are planting a hedge of wintergreen boxwoods, so there is more work to be done.

What do you think, should we paint the fence white?