The shade garden I planted in spring seems to be doing well, but I'd like the hostas to grow a bit faster. I found this fertilizer "Cock-a-doodle Poo" (dried, pelletized chicken crap) that I've been dumping on them. The oriental lillies I thought wouldn't bloom this first year have buds on them. Tomatoes and squash in the back yard are doing well, but slugs have stripped my pepper plants. I've launched a full scale war on the crawling snots, along with the Japanese Beetles. The crab grass in my front yard is doing excedingly well. (Wish they'd come up with a flowering variety.) Butterflies have been sighted on the milkweed and ornamental oregano.