#51 and #76

51) Plant and nurture (with out quitting!) the wonderful heirloom seeds I bought.

76) Buy and spread the stuff to kill the Chinch bugs in the lawn.

So I am off and running with the list!!! So very excited and find myself thinking about it all the time. How to make your life better now, is to do the things you have been putting off...NOW! So this weekend (after spending a RIDICULOUS amount of money on composite boards, dirt, manure, posts and other a sundry materials) we finally put in the garden I have been dreaming of. Of course, I took a good look at the plants before I started putting them in the ground and...they are being attacked by aphids! Damn heirloom seeds, bread for taste and NOT pest tolerance! So before all my hard work went to waste before my eyes I ran out to get some Neem oil. And (insert appropriate onomatopoeia here) the afflicting aphids are gone, for now, I harbor no notions that they are gone for good, I must be vigilant I am learning!

Which leads me to #76, the lawn. We are having some catastrophe of a herbaceous nature in the tiny postage stamp lawn we own and have pledged to the HOA that we will be in charge of keeping the appropriate shade of green. At the wonderful Home Show we attended people where more than willing to come out and do a "free evaluation" of the situation. Little did they know how cheap we are and how small our lawn really is (no spreader needed, just stand in one spot and throw out handfuls of what ever and you will have it covered!). So they came out yesterday and told us we have a fungus, not Chinch bugs like we thought. So I think I am going to try the Neem oil on it first, since it is a fungicide, since it is good enough for an organic garden and since my child plays in this yard, I am going to mix it up and water the affected areas. Hopefully it will be as effective as it was on the aphids! Here's hoping! 98 to go!