My First Garden

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!