My Neglected Garden

I'm not doing much of anything with my garden boxes this summer.  I've mainly been using them as a nursery bed for my thyme and mint....and the baby lavender I've been struggling to grow. (Two seed packets = two tiny plants. Pathetic.)

 

 The reason for my neglect:

We're spending the summer elsewhere. Far away elsewhere. In a much more desirable climate.

We did leave a few volunteer sunflowers and 3 pumpkin plants. Maybe we'll come home to pumpkin plants at the end of the summer...or maybe they'll get mowed by the neighbor that's doing our lawns. 

I'm just rolling the dice and hoping they come up pumpkins.

The one "improvement" I did manage to finish before leaving:

I planted lavender (that I did not grow) by our sidewalk.

They're tiny.

It was all I could justify buying, since I wanted six of them.

I'm trying to use my mind powers to make them to grow big - quickly!

...so they can be a slightly less grand version of this:

(And then I'll have a million guard bees at my disposal as well.)

Until then, I've got Cozy to make my picture a little less dreary. 

Check out the most adorable pirate face ever:

"Arrrg!"