Tabs

These websites have been opened on my computer for a couple weeks:

Cover a Chain-Link Fence

How to Install a Drip Irrigation....

They both have awesome information and I'll come back to them soon....

Identification

I need to go back to Lowe's and figure out what this plant is called.  I followed my heart when I bought it because I liked the dark color of the leaves.  But that pretty little violet flower appeared a few days ago.  So not I'm curious what this plant is called.  I thought maybe Black Eyed Susan, but I'm not seeing variations of these colors when I search on the Internet.  

To be continued.....

Cheap Plants

Sometimes the 99 Cents Store has good quality plants, not always, but when they look like this, I purchase a few!  Yay!

Morning Glory

Morning glory just makes me happy.  I'm not sure if it will transplant well.  But, I'm going to try and move it to a fence area this weekend.  I also have sprouts growing.  I'll spread it around and see where it does best.  

Sweet Potato Vine

I noticed this in someone's garden the other day.  I NEED this in my garden.  Maybe on the side of my home near the brick path since it spreads and there is a wide area I would like to cover.  It's called Sweet Potato Vine.  There are a variety of them listed in the link, I like the one in the picture above. I'll seek out places to get them...I'm sure Lowe's is ok, because Proven Winners brand carries them. The color green would bring out the color of so many other plants.  

Pepper Tree

This tree started growing in about 2012, there's a blog post on it somewhere in this blog!  I liked it....but it's destroying the already messed up fence and the irrigation around it.  Also, I haven't been able to grow any veggies in that area for a few years.  My gardener is going to chop it down so that he can properly work on my irrigation drip system.  I'm ok with that.  Maybe, I'll be able to grow veggies there again.  

Here's a good, simple article I found about installing drip systems.  It's currently a work in progress this week.  I'm excited!!!  

Mushroom Compost

I got a dump truck load of compost at the beginning of summer.......I'll write more tomorrow when I'm not falling asleep.  But, long story short, I finally found my first mushroom growing in my garden.

Update:  I'm not falling asleep, yet.  The compost came from Mountain Meadow Mushrooms.  The compost is free and the dump truck driver charges about $100 to collect it and deliver it to you.  It took me about two weeks of almost daily hauling throughout my yard to get it all spread.  It was soooo hot out too!  I would get distracted while working on other things while working in my garden, but it was so worth it.  It's been so nice being able to work in my yard.  After two intense years of my MLIS studies and then a year of wrist surgeries and recovery--this year has been great for me to get out there.

The compost has definitely brought more birds to my yard and lately I've had a ton visiting a bird feeder that I put out about a month ago.  I'm going through wild bird seed like crazy!

I found a lot of strange things in the compost, but

I feel lucky to have found this horseshoe!  

Here's my first mushroom...I have a feeling there will

be more once we progress into Autumn and when my drip

system is in place.