Any ideas for a new company name.....

So our interior decorating and design company is expanding is services to include landscaping design and installation due to popular demand from our clients, YEAH!  So any ideas for a new company name to include interior & landscape design???  It could be a new name and/or should we keep part of the existing name which is Jolie Interiors, Inc.???  What do you think? :))

Sugar Snap Peas...soooooo delicious!

In January of this year my Dad & I were visiting one of his long time neighborhood friends in Miami.  While we were there, my Dad's friend says, "would you like to see my vegetable garden?"  Dare I say, the description "vegetable garden" was highly under stated.  Their entire backyard is the vegetable garden!  I apologized for being rude as my jaw dropped and my hands dangled at my sides; he & his wife just giggled at me.  WOW, very impressive!!!  As he was showing me around, he snapped off a few sugar snap peas from the vine for me to try.  I was truly stunned as to how sweet and delicious they were. My brain & stomach simultaneously said "We must have those in our vegetable garden!"

I found some Burpee seeds at the local store & planted those in the beginning of May.  The package had no label as when to plant here in South Florida although I read it is a good summer plant.  With my hopes high and my stomach excited, I eagerly waited for the little plants to pop their heads from the ground.  To my surprise almost all of the seeds sprouted; "Yes!"  The bigger they grew some of them started to die; "What!?! No!"  Well that's normal I thought, the stronger plants survive; "There are still plenty left for harvest, right?"  Now there are only a handful of plants left; "Argh, what to do!?!"  I mulched them and make sure they have water everyday and if all goes well we will have some delicious sugar snap peas to munch on.

I have come to the conclusion that the plants are getting too dry and too much full sun and/or I need to plant them earlier in the season like my Dad's friend did.  So the moral of this story.....experience, guidance, wisdom & knowledge from our elders is priceless!  For it to be passed to another generation, we must take the time to stop and listen. :)

Blossom End Rot

To rot or not to rot is the question! LOL really though, every single one of my yellow squash have succumbed to blossom end rot it seems.  I Google'd the predicament and read that the plant needs to increase the calcium intake.  Quite a few solutions were either to use crushed up egg shells that had sat in water for an extended period of time or Epsom salt.  I used the egg shells method and the squash are still exhibiting the rot problem.  Soooooo...any ideas and/or solutions as to how I can alleviate the issue???  I would love to taste at least one squash this year ;)