I spent much of the day digging and designing a front bed. The easiest thing to do would be to remove everything and put it back where I want it, but some of it simply can't be moved and I didn't get out there early enough to do this work before it grew tall. So I work around stuff.

I'm plagued by ants this year, and they're all crawling into cracks in the walls. I think sugar ants shorted out a switch in the kitchen over the sink, and whatever this red ant is (bigger than a fire ant, not so aggressive as a biter, but persistent, following long involved paths and they all head into the wall). I picked up a couple of cards of tricogramma wasps today and one is in the veggie garden and the other I put in out front in anticipation of some veggies out there. I walked past the stick I stapled it to an hour earlier and those ants had cleaned the moth eggs off of the card! Geez! The other one is okay, but I'll treat these like fire ants with orange oil and diatomaceous earth and (last resort, according to the Dirt Doctor) Abamectin. Gotta get these things out of the walls and the garden. I won't try to replace that front card until the ants have been treated.

SRS