Intro to Gardening: First Harvest!

I haven't been following this as much as I should have, but we are still gardening! We have already had our first "harvest." The beans below came out a week ago. They were a very pretty green. We have bell peppers that are almost ready. I think the parsley and basil are also ready, I just haven't brought them in.

Beans!

Tim ate them right out of the garden!

Intro to Gardening: Good Friday is here!

Good Friday is here. And if you read the last blog I wrote about gardening, you'll know my dear old friend Jenn said today is the day. Today I made a trip to Lowe's, and two trips to Home Depot. At Lowe's mom and I bought some flowers and tomatoes for her, and some green pepper for me. Then, between the two trips at Home Depot I bought cucumbers, garden soil (we thought we'd mix it with our old soil too), carrots, green onions, peas, parsley, basil and iris (to plant elsewhere).

Smile! Me planting our first green pepper!

Timmy's hands.

Me!

He's so cool with his shades on.

All planted!

We'll have to rearrange some things once they get growing.

We did a mix of seedlings and seeds.

I'm excited to see what happens over the next few weeks. Tomorrow we're going to plant the Iris I think. Just gotta find a spot in the back yard.

Intro to Gardening: Baby Steps

So a while ago I got it in my head that I could just magically become a veggie gardener. We have been going back and forth on whether or not we want to build a new one in the backyard, or use the old garden area on the side of the house. Well, Good Friday is coming pretty quickly and a wise woman who was born on Hog Killin Day once told me to plant your garden on Good Friday. We finally decided to get to work on the old area and make some progress.

Sooo...we took this:

The poor thing is weathered and weeded.

Icky weeds.

And turned it into this:

But underneath it all...lots of earth worms and other critters

Looking much better already!

I read that earthworms and critters are a good sign that your soil is fertile. Let's hope so. If you have any tips or suggestions on what to plant, let us know!