Lizard Hollow

I have always wanted to name my garden. A few weeks ago Carol over at May Dreams Gardens made this the topic of conversation for two posts, and got me thinking more about it.

"Lizard Hollow!" I proudly exclaimed to Chris shortly after reading those posts.
"Uhh....ok." he replied.

We've always had a small brood of lizards skittling about, and recently a small nest must have hatched because there are baby lizards everywhere! We've noticed their numbers climb as our property was suddenly weaned from synthetic fertilizaers and pesticides the moment we moved in. The lizards are so cute, and have certainly garnered my inside cats' attentions. Travis was just sitting at the back door staring intently all day yesterday, and is doing it again right now (picture).

Yesterday Chris and I went to the side garden with hopes of trimming back the monstrous tomatoes (and picking a few to munch on), pulling out the watermelon plants (sidenote: we got a pretty bad whitefly infestation and the one watermelon we were waiting on split, effectively ending that experiment), and seeing what else we may have missed while that horrible bug held us hostage from our own garden.

I walked to the back of the beds once the watermelon was all cleaned up and located this








Something tunneled underneath the corner bed on both sides! We've never seen a mouse or rat, no sign of wasps, too large for ants...we surmise it must be where the lizards live. LIZARD HOLLOW! I'm psychic. (We always heard the lizards rustling back here too...)

So our garden is thusly named, Lizard Hollow.

I also planted some more seeds where I cleared away watermelon debris:

Sweet Pea 'Early Gigantea Mixed Colors'
Radish 'Crimson Crunch'
Radish 'Easter Egg II'
Carrot 'Tendersweet'
Carrot 'Little Finger'
Lettuce 'Buttercrunch'
Pea 'Burpeeana Early'

And since Blogger is not cooperating this morning and not allowing me to upload any more pictures, I made a slideshow.