With the nice weather and no race scheduled for today Heather and I did some gardening. We went shopping and got everything we needed then waited until late afternoon when it wasn’t so hot, to get to work. In the corner garden we planted various types of tomato plants. Also in that area Heather planted lettuce and peas from seeds. In another area we planted the mandatory cucumber and zucchini plants.

The third area is the “strawberry patch”. This is the planter which had roses when we first moved in. We removed those a few years ago and started planting strawberry plants there. Strawberry plants are perennial and each year they spread out more and more. They do so using shoots. So I transplanted a bunch of the smaller “shoots” to give them more room to spread out. My goal is to make that whole area wall-to-wall strawberry plants! With the early warm weather there are already some strawberries ripening. We also planted some marigolds which are supposed to repel insects.