For those of you who saw me surfing websites all winter trying to decide which seeds to buy and who then heard about me starting the garden before Easter to get the seeds going, I’m happy to report my little garden is flourishing!

Behind the fence we built two small boxes for my gardens.  Starting from the left I’ve got Painted Lady Runner Beans, mesculin and lettuce mix, carrots, lemon cucumbers growing up the wall, three types of peppers (the seedlings got all mixed up), yellow wax bush beans, black pear tomatoes, beets, and gai lan.  I pulled up some of the beets last weekend and had a taste – it was a mixed bag of beet seeds – and the two I tried were delicious.  Some of my yellow beans are about ready and we’ve been eating lettuce non-stop for months.  It got a bit overgrown so I reseeded this weekend but grew half as much as we don’t eat that much lettuce.

The purple flowers are borage I palanted around the trees out front.  They look really pretty in the sun!

Tanya and I went to Southern California last week (June 29-July 4) – here are some pics from our Wine/Food/Beach vacation!

Itinerary:
June 29 – Flew Air Canada YOW-YYZ-SNA (Upgraded to executive class – woohoo!), picked up our cherry red rustang convertible, stayed at the Hilton Costa Mesa in Anaheim
June 30 – Drove to Temecula, did some outlet shopping in Lake Elsinore, some wine tasting, and stayed at the South Coast Winery Resort and Spa. Ate some spectacular food
July 1 – More wine tasting, toured old town Temecula, ate more spectacular food and drove to Ranchos Costa Verdes, stayed at the Terranea Resort and Spa
July 2 – Went hiking along the cliffs and beaches around Ranchos Costa Verdes, visited the glass chapel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son, ate more spectacular food, stayed again at the Terranea Resort and Spa
July 3 – Visited the Abalone Coastal Reserve to see the tide pools, went to the beach at the resort, stayed the night at the Terranea Resort and Spa, drank too much.
July 4 – SNA-YYZ-YOW (upgraded again)!