Adventures in gardening

Being able to walk out to your backyard and pick something fresh to eat is just an amazing concept to me. I love that we have been pretty succesful on our first year of gardening.

We started out way back in February where we sprouted some seeds on our window sil.

Then we prepared the spot where we wanted to plant the garden by digging up all the overgrown stuff that was there, turning over the dirt and covering it with a garbage bag.



Our poor little seedlings waited so long to be planted, they got very big in their little cups.



We finally got them in the ground in early june.



Then we watched as many of them died. We planted more plants where the old ones died. The plants that survived where the tomatoes, tomatillos, cubanelle peppers, and basil. We started off with, well, much much more than that. Here is what it looks like now.



Overgrown and full of weeds. I don't think we did too bad of a job though.





We also had some volunteers sprout up. We have some melon/squash like plants that are doing well that came up from some seeds from the compost. We also had some chard like greens that came up that must have been planted there a long, long time ago.

What started out as a seed is now a thriving plant that provides food for us. Simply wonderful!