Work, Work, Work (in the garden)...

My goodness I've been busy this weekend.  I had a long weekend, so I had four days, but to be fair, all the work I did in the garden, I did in two days.  Here's my list:

1. Did a lot of "research" about what I can plant now in Orlando.
2. Fertilized the lemon tree--it's looking a lot better, thanks for asking.
3. Cut a bunch of basil to dry.  I wanted to try out drying it in the oven, but it got discolored, so I cut some more today to air dry and see if that works better.
4. Cut a bunch of lavender to dry.  Once it was dry, I crumbled it up minimally and put it into a jar--IT SMELLS AMAZING!
5. Decided that if it was so awesome, I should cut some more to propagate, which I haven't always had luck with.  This time I dipped the lavender stems right into rooting hormone and planted them into small pots.  We'll see how that works.  They are covered with plastic bags and resting comfortably on my kitchen window sill.  
6. Decided that since I was propagating lavender, I might as well propagate basil while I was at it.  Cut some nice stems and put those in water in same window sill.
7. Decided that since I was adding all these cute little plants to my window sill, some of my houseplants needed to be re-potted.   Re-potted a spider plant, and two Christmas cacti.
8. While re-potting, noticed that my little African violets are kind of...well...dead.  Dumped them into the compost pile.  Sadness.
9. Made my new garden bed, which is about 6' x 2'.  Made the soil mix for it and filled it.  Will plant beans and I'm not sure what else, maybe some flowers (?) in it.
10. After going to my brother's birthday party and collecting an obscene number of beer bottles, I thought it would be a good idea to add a little herb bed with bottles as the frame, which I've seen on Pinterest and liked the looks of.  So I started digging the grass out, and BROKE MY SHOVEL!  Picture below.  Now I have a half dug bed, a broken shovel and 75 or so beer bottles laying around my yard.  Classy, isn't it?
11. I made little seedling pots out of newspaper, and filled them with my homemade potting mix, they are ready to plant my tomato seeds in for fall (also squash).  I'm going to try squash again, even though I never have any luck.   Green beans will go into the ground--they don't like to be transplanted.

I'm feeling really good about things right now.