Some visitors (residents?) of the garden

 Checking on things this morning and sure enough, grasshopper is still there but on a different stake. Common Field Grasshopper....female. They lay their eggs typically in the soil.

No signs of chewing so far so she may be hanging out waiting for some lonely male hopper to come along. The peas themselves are doing great, lots of flowers and a few pods coming out.

Then I noticed someone else hanging around, cousin or other relation to the one I flooded out perhaps?

Note the stubby tail and it's a bit larger than the other one. I was moving around a bit from one end to the other and noticed it wasn't on the wall any longer and looked down..perfectly camouflaged in the mud. You just go ahead and hang out Lizzy, catch all the bugs you can find.

So I decided to tackle the weeds around the potato bed and noticed what looked like a possible gopher hole at the front (hard to see in right hand picture). Didn't look like anything serious and used the hoe and my hands to tackled the ones at the fence and then what I could around the other sides. If that soil is not wet it is cement, it took some hard work but got most of them hacked away.

Then it was pondering time. Looked at the pitiful peppers, the empty space in the other bed, back and forth and made a decision. Transplanting time!

So I guess that's going to be a pepper bed now, there's room for one more plant but I have four already and hoping they all survive and thrive. The soil is so different in the North bed from the potato bed! Much richer and looser, I knocked most of the dirt off the roots before planting them in the new soil and might even move the one on the far right over to the left near the two new ones. 

The Marigolds are starting to form buds now yay!

Sun angle in the morning makes it hard to get a picture without my shadow. Yay for flowers! should be blooming  most of the summer at this rate, hopefully. 

I lost track of the trowel, knew I usually leave it in the corner of one of my beds, well it wasn't there. No where. Me jumping to conclusions, someone might have used it elsewhere. Hmmph, go check the obvious other places it would be used and got some pictures of things that have been done.

The iris was repotted, good to see that and the bed where the tomato is planted but mostly shaded is getting about an  hour of sun at this point. Maybe. Will see what happens with that one as it grows.

So a bit of movement and change in the garden, grow and thrive everyone!