Beautiful Day + Prepared Garden + Plants + Good Help = Wonderful Birthday

I can't believe it has been a month since I last posted. Well, today was beautiful, so I celebrated my birthday by transplanting peppers, tomatoes, and broccoli into my garden. Now only time will tell how they take the change from my living room window to the wide open space of my garden plot.

After being chased from my garden by darkness, mom (who stopped by to help me out) and I sat down on my swing to go through some seed packets she had - so now I have some zucchini, patty pan squash, nasturtiums, carrots, and beets to plant in the coming days. Add that squash to the trombetta - a climbing italian summer squash I got from another friend, and this gardener, who generally doesn't plant squash because it takes up too much space and tends to be a prolific for my taste, is asking for trouble. And to think I am not even planting my favorite squash, which happens to be butternut squash, or a fun squash like fairytale pumpkins, which I was going to try planting one year and saved some seed, but I don't know what happened to it, so I never did. Oh well, I do like squash, but I am not sure I can keep up.

I am excited about the nasturtiums, I had tried to grow it once before but my seed was old and it never came up. On top of all the previous listed things, I still need to plant onions, beans, and maybe some corn and potatoes.

And I forgot to mention after being chased out of the garden by darkness, I was chased off the swing by a bumble bee - obviously enjoying the beautiful day as much as I was prior to my disturbing his resting place (the spring of my porch swing) and subsequently being sprayed by poisonous spray. I am hoping that will take care of the problem, because I have no intention of giving up my porch swing for the summer.