Adventure into gardening

Well, I think I am doing pretty well on this garden. Today I cleaned out some unused pots and stacked them on the side of the garage. I also cleared some pine needles from a coner area of the garden and layied some brick down. I then put a pot down there. The reason I put another pot in the garden, if you were wondering, is because I got a new plant. It's called a Lemon Cucumber. Based on the little picture on its tag it is going to look like yellow/orange squash but when you cut it open it will look like a cucumber. We will have to see what it's like. Everything is growing pretty well. I even thought of a cool idea. When I plant the tomato plants a long with some marigolds I put seeds in with them. Once the basil gets big enough I am going to pull some out and put them into smaller pots. Then I can give them to friends as gifts. I think it would be a fun thing to do and it would thin the basil so it wouldn't crowed out the tomato plants. So today was round two with t...

So Brenton, his dad, and I built a gate. Its pretty cool. we had to figure out a better way to keep the dogs out of the garden other than a baby gate that we were using. Also I have picked the strawberry that had been growing. It was so good. It wasn't tart at all. It was funny because I ate it before I went to work. When Brenton got home he thought that the birds had gotten to it. When I got home he was wanting to go get a BB gun to shot them. I told him that I had ate it and he said. That he was glad now he didn't need to kill all the birds.

Today I was greeted to a surprise. When I was starting my gardening I found one of our strawberries had started to get color! I am so happy. I checked on it yesterday and it was pure white and now...well you see. I guess this means we are going to have to start defending our garden from the birds.

Ok, So everything is finally planted. Some of the stuff I planted is already begining to grow a bunch!So as you can see for the most part everything is in pots. This is just half of the garden. That section has most of the herbs. We do have a few more pot of herb by our back door for easy use. Yes, that is a gatorade bottle in my dog mouth. She like to play with them. Look at the strawberry! On all the other one they just have small little berries but this one is already huge. I hope this is a sign that we are going to be getting a lot of berries.

So I have started a blog on my adventures in gardening. I don't have that much experience so I have a feeling I am going to be learning a lot. I have started with different types of tomato plants, a couple of herbs, broccoli, cucumber, different peppers, strawberries, cantaloupe, crookneck squash, arugula, and romaine. The type of peppers I have are Jalpeno, Yummy Bell, Early Big Bell, and Hot Banana The herbs I planted are Sweet Basil, Boxwood Basil, Thai Basil, Chives, Lemon Balm, Stevla, Cilantro, Lemon Thyme, Flat Italian Parsley, Curly Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, Greek Oregano, German Thyme. I hope I everything turns out!!