the people who had this house before me, took the trouble to build some raised beds along the perimeter of the yard, along the fence. in the big one, along the back fence, they planted a few trees and then promptly filled the rest in with rock. now, my trees are stunted, not to mention the heinous waste of space i see. my mission the past few weeks has been to clear out the rocks so matt has been helping. now that the rocks are cleared, the soil is gonna get tilled and then my sister and i are going to try our hands at a really extensive herbal bed. we are looking to plant not only kitchen favorites like oregano, parsley, cilantro and basil; but i am looking to have an extensive floral herb bed as well. i want rue, st. john's wort, achillia, peonies, lavender, etc... etc... etc...
my history of illness is as follows; i was diagnosed at 22 with graves disease. it's a thyroid condition that floods your cells with too much thyroxin. thyroxin regulates how hard the systems in your body are working. when you have too much, as i did, everything works too hard. at one point, i was taking 14 pills a day. finally i felt enough was enough so i began my journey to be healthy. i had my thyroid radiated and jump started, i quit eating most junk food... except for some taco bell as a guilty pleasure now and again... i also started exercising again and decided that i wasn't gonna take pills if i didn't have to. i feel great. i lost 60lbs and am trying to tone and a lot of my success has been because of the choice i made to cut out all of the chemicals that have invaded our life.
i am humbled by nature. there are so many natural remedies for almost every ache and pain you will have. so i have purchased some tea trees and in a year or two, after my herb garden is under way and my tea trees are mature, i can get to making herbal teas and home remedies for those of us who feel like getting back to basics.
today was also about clearing out my compost cage. this year, i'm committing to two different boxes: one for just egg shells and calcium rich food waste, and the other is gonna be for everything else. i have had a compost bin going for about 6 or 7 months now but never really took care of it before. this year, i need to take advantage of my own food waste that is missing it's opportunity to natural fertilize and enrich it's successors in the garden, but to also give back to this earth as i keep asking it to give me more and more. i opened the worm box today, hoping for some signs of life and was so pleasantly surprised to see healthy compost being farmed in there and some big, fat, happy worms, working away at the box:
if you look closely, you can see some big ol' fat worms in there!!!
the rest of this week, i'm going to start building these guys a bigger home from recycled pallets. the worm lady, who i purchased my lovelies from, told me that wood is better. more natural, organic, nicer for them. i'll post a pic as soon as it's complete!
lastly, i would love to welcome the newest darlings to the front yard, tulips!!!
beautiful bud, popping out, hopefully soon to bloom!
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