sweet peas

I love the way peas and pole beans curl around fences and sticks! I put sticks in the garden in our backyard and the beans are starting to grow up and GRAB the sticks! I strung string between the sticks too. The beans are starting to make flowers, but I am still looking for their bees.

Let me tell you about my garden. I am growing okra, eggplant, basil and flowers. I am also growing tomatoes. There's other stuff too but I can't remember what it is right now. I am looking forward to giving some of what I grow to my friends. Nut Ella will get some of everything. A few of the tomatoes I will give to Booze Allen, because he doesn't like to cook and he doesn't like flowers. Basil is good with tomatoes. We planted garlic last fall and are just starting to pull it out of the ground! I took some out last night. It made a scrittching ripping sound coming out. I hope it doesn't mind too much. In the fall I will plant more garlic. Did you know it takes nine months to grow and it doesn't mind the winter?

I have a compost pile in the corner of it and yesterday I found a spider crawling in it. There are lots of good things you can put in the compost. This guy Cliff Bar, he lives down the street from us and he is older than me but not that old, and he likes to help people learn how to make compost. He sent us this list of stuff to compost. It says you can use lint from the dryer! My favorite thing to put in the compost is egg shells. Then later I like finding a worm living in the egg shell. The shell also makes tomato plants stronger.

It was really dry this spring, which is different from last spring when it RAINED and RAINED. Do you remember that? What were you doing when it rained the most last year? My mom and I were at the movies with her friend Heather. They like to go to the movie theater that sells beer. We saw Finding Nemo, which was fine, but they really wanted to see the Al Gore movie but thought it would be too scary for me. Anyway, we left the theater and drove home and on the way the car almost drowned because there was so much water on the road.