I have finally gotten around to blogging about MY FIRST GARDEN!!! I am sooo excited to be doing it this year, and Kenny was so wonderful in helping me build a cute, little raised garden. It took some time to figure out what I wanted to plant seeing that my family doesn't eat anything colorful. (Except Skittles) But I finally narrowed it down to tomatoes, carrots, zucchini, cantaloupe, and red bell peppers. I had a ton of help from my friend Chandelle, the gardening goddess as I think of her:) Here are the first pictures of it once we planted the tomatoes. This was April 15th.
Cute- isn't it!Here are the strawberries. I put them in pots, but next year I will do them in the garden! They seem inhibited in the pots:)
So, here are some pictures on the first day I got produce out of it! This is May 20th. You can also see where I added the rest of the plants.
My very first cherry tomato! Just beautiful!
In order to prove that it was the perfect size I figured I would do a size comparison.
Here are the tomato plants at 4 weeks.
This shows the peppers (the large plants), the cantaloupe (right behind the peppers), and the carrots (the weed-looking ones to the left).
And FINALLY, ...(drumroll please)..., Here are my peppers today (yes, I planted red, but for some reason they are green).
And here are my tomatoes after a serious trimming! I didn't realize I could trim them and they were taking over my whole garden. They were as tall as me, and bending over big time. So I trimmed them and hopefully that helps. I have gotten around 20-30 cherry tomatoes so far and 1 big one. I LOVE it!
Ok- yes I admit those are cheap curtain rods you see. We had these left over from our apartment days and I needed something to help prop up the plants and Kenny was at work. I tried splitting wood, but I totally messed that up so I improvised! Not bad huh, they actually work really good. Next year I will know more and I will absolutely buy the big tomato wire things!
TADA! My first zucchini! (Chandelle will be jealous) It's beautiful, and I have another little one on the way! I was worried I wouldn't get any, but here we are!
Here's a picture of the garden today- it looks a little wilty because it was like 100 degrees and I had forgotten to water that morning- whoops!
And here are my tomatoes after a serious trimming! I didn't realize I could trim them and they were taking over my whole garden. They were as tall as me, and bending over big time. So I trimmed them and hopefully that helps. I have gotten around 20-30 cherry tomatoes so far and 1 big one. I LOVE it!
Ok- yes I admit those are cheap curtain rods you see. We had these left over from our apartment days and I needed something to help prop up the plants and Kenny was at work. I tried splitting wood, but I totally messed that up so I improvised! Not bad huh, they actually work really good. Next year I will know more and I will absolutely buy the big tomato wire things!
TADA! My first zucchini! (Chandelle will be jealous) It's beautiful, and I have another little one on the way! I was worried I wouldn't get any, but here we are!
Here's a picture of the garden today- it looks a little wilty because it was like 100 degrees and I had forgotten to water that morning- whoops!
