The Patio Garden

My family all like bell peppers, and we used to cook a good deal with them, but when we moved to Georgia (from Washington state) we found that the price of bell peppers had also moved... up.
In our new house we have a very nice patio out back, so Mom and I decided to plant a garden out there so we could grow our own peppers and tomatoes and anything else that would grow well in a pot or bucket.

You will have to forgive this mash of pictures, I have yet to figure out how to get them in here the way I want.

The first one that looks like and green spiky alien from the planet whosawhat is an onion that we found in the bin that had a good strong sprout on it that looked like it needed planting, and seems to be doing very well.

The little gray- green bush in the little blue-green pot is lavender.

Next there is the blue rubber maid which has sweet basil, one of my favorite herbs and parsley for my parakeets.

Then there is a bit of mint. It is growing very slowly but hopefully we will have enough to make some mint ice tea when the weather is really hot.

In the 10 gal white buckets are two pepper plants (left) a yellow pear tomato in the middle, then a patio style tomato on the right.

Bird eggs

Ok. Let us see if I can figure out how to get this picture in here.
As you may or may not know we have a family of birds who have built a nest on one of the supports on our front porch. They had one set of babies who have gone, we don't know if they grew up and flew away or if some other beasties ate them.
Anyway they have a new set of eggs and I managed to get a picture of them, but not momma bird, she was having none of it.
If you look in the back of the nest you can see a bit of fluff that I am sure is from Simon (our dog).

Hello

Hey all. This is my first blog post. It is going to be very short right now because I have two very energetic, young girls that I am sitting right now, and they need my attention before they break something or them selves.
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