My weekend finds

I had a volunteer Odoriko growing in the garden however it was stuck behind the garlic so was... puny and sad. I replanted it yesterday, moving it over to it's own sunny spot. I also took 3 more volunteer toms out of the lemon tree pot and put them in 4" pots to give to coworkers. While I was working my around the lemon pot, I noticed a yellow flower. At first I thought a tomato bloom, but it didn't look right. Since it was tall and gangly and growing up between the thorns of the lemon tree, I couldn't see it well. I call over BF and he got on the other side of the pot. "It's a tomatillo," he declared, and I do declare he was right! It was more than a foot tall and two blossoms on it. I punched them off, dug it out and repotted it. Once it recovers and the weather cools a bit, I'll put it in the ground. So far all 5 of the plants I replanted yesterday (3 toms from the lemon pot, 1 tomatillo from the lemon pot, and 1 tom from behind the garlic) are all standing tall and happy today.)

I have a plan for the back bed this year in order to be able to utilize it more since it has a very steep slope which makes it hard to retain water. But the wheels in my head are spinning and I want to try to use the 1/3 circle red clay borders (which I typically think look tacky) to level the soil in certain places, using the borders to design out a fish scale sort of outline. I'll buy a few at OSH and see how it goes before I go crazy. I'm just tired of watching the dirt and all my water run down the hill while my plants thirst.