Almost time to pick the cayennes and dry them! Just need a few more sunny days. Dave, our landlady’s handyman, cleared away all the mystery vines, trees, and plants that were growing all over the back fence (including one that is apparently poisonous which explains my arm rashes …) so no there is another 6’ of garden “strip” available! On Saturday, I pulled out the rear garden raised bed – and found the the sub-dirt wood had been destroyed by termites! They were pretty cool actually I have never seen them – the wood was completely burrowed out. I then spread the dirt around since i noticed that the plants in-ground were definitely doing better than the raised bed (and it obviously wasn’t killing them to grow in our sketchy inner city soil). I then made a vertical brick border around the whole garden strip which really made it look a lot neater.