Replants

Finishing moving all the plants that need to be moved and, on mom's order, pulled up all the peas. There is a pea harvest (there'll be a peas photo soon, I promise). Still no sign of the promised rain. With my luck the rain that is supposed to come yesterday will probably come on Saturday.

I encountered many snails today and a lot of them have a disturbingly soft shell (as in I can dent them like elastic soft plastic by pressing them lightly between my thumb and index finger). Similarly to the case with the pill bugs, I have either found another variation on the harder-shelled snails or this is another indicator about the soil content. In which case it might be the soil is acidic. I really don't know -- I'm talking off of the top of my head here. We never did a soil indicator type test in the backyard, though we also don't need one of those to know that the soil there isn't really suitable for crops.

Now for more photos:


My contained mint. The container has pebbles at the bottom and no drainage holes, so the mint, unless it starts sending out runners and rooting from the stem like strawberries (which it may actually do if I let it run wild for long enough without pinching), is completely non-invasive now.


Calla lily blooming! (Two more are coming up today.) They're really that white when the sun shines down on them. There's something very elegant about the plant, don't you think?


My peas on their cornstalk and string support, which have collapsed because I don't own garden tape, and the regular string breaks down fairly fast when exposed to the elements.
There are lots of weeds because, of course, I'm the only one who weeds so they tend to build up whenever I'm away for any continuous periods of time.


A shot of the other part of the yard (no it isn't a particularly large yard). Going from the nearest to the furthest away in the photo we have: radishes, garlic and onions, my random potted plants and mom's other Dracaena tree (that she got from OSH something like four years ago), peas that have mostly fallen off of their corn-stalk supports, mint, chrysanthemum 'butterfield', alyssum, rose, and calla lillies.
(The last three are against the wall, I don't know how well you can see them, but they're there.)


The is the lavender bush by the corner of the yard (and a bit of the plant-eating geranium).