I should do some marjoram, that was good last year. I used to grow tarragon, stopped, I should do that again too it was easy and good. I am going to keep those both in pots on the porch if I do though. You know what was really good I did a copuple years ago was summer savory, a great pizza and italian sauce spice, a real spicy combo of flavors, I really should do more of that, the flavor really surprised me and it was real easy to grow and dried real nice too.

Bugs.. Flowers are one thing but by the time you get notoicable bugs in the garden it's often ttoo late... pick up a bar of castille soap next time you are the store and for another real blast to keep pests away, on the counter put a few cloves of garlic and a couple cayenne peppers (or some powder, 1/4 teaspoon) into a pint jar and just let it steep there for a week or so and then refrigerate. Weak castille soap is great to get rid of aphids, kills em, gets through their skin and they die, and the garlic/cayenne pepper, you use that solution about 1 part garlic water to 2 parts plain water and spray that on your tomatoes (or cucumbers) once or twice while they are small before they flower to make the plant not tasty to bugs. I don't like to spray anything after the plants start flowering, keeps the bees away too, which isn't good. , Filter the garlic water into a bottle so it doesn't clog the sprayer. Spray lightly, don't burn the plants, spray in the evening not hot sun.

But I also plant stuff tandem, with herbs in between fruiting plants which helps a lot also.

You'll be a pro by end of summer. Hooked too. Nothing like fresh off the vine.

dandelion salad was dandy. yum. I felt like I was starving the past few days doing the garden and still not having had any fresh greens, now I feel better.

My neighbor got a bunch of chickens a couple months ago, she is going to trade me fresh eggs for veggies, cool. I gave her all my leftover squashes from last fall for them to peck. We can make vanillas with fresh raw eggs. I have not had a vanilla in years. I think one month to go before they start laying.

Tomatoes really like to be next to carrots btw.