wow, what a concept-posting an update on the same day as i have been out in the garden! now that my book is finished-at least what i needed to do is finished, i have time in the afternoon to do things like put up a post to update everyone about the garden!
today, it was hot and humid and with all of the rain, the plants are thriving. unfortunately, so are the weeds. luckily, we had help today.
here is new intern, class of 2010, steven helping out in the vegetable garden. (hope i spelled that right, that's how my brother's name is spelled). he and darry spent some time relocating the sorrel from the herb garden, staking up the tomatoes and building a bean teepee for the long beans.
here is anne, she will be attending the classes in 2011 and is actively working now so that she will be certified when she completes the classes. today she relocated sedum plants to the rain garden. 
this is anne's son sam, he worked hard today. his task was toll collector on the bridge and he must have raked in quite a load today! he was charging anywhere from a penny to two dollars to cross the bridge! the trolls under the bridge don't have a chance with sam on the job!
in the center of the new herb garden is an edible flower bed and we are outlining it with bottles.
the last little patch of wall that needs to be built, only about 12 logs are needed and then we will be done. a big thanks to the log fairy for the load of wood, we made lots of progress with this last load of logs!
next we will concentrate on the beds. we need rocks, debris for lasagna layers and oh yeah, plants!
in the center of the sunflowers (helianthus) there is a single blackberry lily bloom.
bumblebees on the coneflowers
cabbage white-pretty but destructive little critters. the caterpillars can decimate cabbage plants.come on out and join us some sunday, today's cake was a rhubarb coffee cake with almonds.
