Now I Need a New Lawn Mower

I was mowing the lawn last night and all of sudden, one of the rear wheels wobbled and fell off. My first thought was it came unscrewed, easy enough to fix. Nope-review of the mower showed that somehow the metal around the screw sheared off. I had a gaping hole where the screw went in.  Somewhere on the lawn is a large shard of metal. 

The guy at the local hardware store told me that the body of the mower is rusting out and any patch would be very temporary.  He did say that it probably would not be worth my time and money to repair the mower body. I'd have to get someone to weld on a huge metal patch, if they could weld metal onto the rusting body. He's right too. I got the mower at Wal Mart of $89 when I first moved into my house. It was the second least expensive mower they had.  Plus it's had 9 years of hard use and a bit of abuse by me. 

Oh well, I'll keep my eyes open on Craigslist and at the box stores. I'm hoping lawm mowers will go on sale like soon! 

Girls Gone Wild

I bought two heirloom tomato plants in the spring and they have taken over the spot where I planted them. I've nicknamed them "Girls Gone Wild" I have lots of green tomatoes on the plant and am looking forward to my harvest. The object d'arte in the fore ground is something I bought at the White Flower Farm Summer Tent sale. Next year I'll plant something to climb the tower. The tomoto plants have taken over my small flower bed! I really need to work on a veggie garden as I had planned.......

The Grass is Greener

And just to keep you all in the loop (I know you are all so fascinated by my lawn growing adventures). The grass is growing quite nicely now that we have had some prolonged warmer weather. Time to reseed the last section of yard before it gets too hot.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

It's sort of a gardening tradition that on St. Patrick's day, you plant your first crop of peas. Well not in my area of New England. Most of the ground is still pretty frozen and I think any peas I would have planted might not make it to maturity.

I am planning to do a small square foot vegetable garden this year. I still have some extra lumber leftover that can make the boundaries of a small raised bed. I have not done a vegetable bed in a couple years. I'm planning on just one or two squash plants, a couple heirloom tomato plants, maybe a pumpkin plant, a cucumber plant, a variety of herbs~ just enough for one and probably enough to give away as well. I have two amazing compost piles that I'm planning on incorporating into the raised bed. I think I've spent too much time this past winter reading my seed catalogs!