Garden

I've always wanted a garden. When we moved in our house there were 2 garden boxes in the back yard. They aren't huge, but not small either. The larger box is about 8x8 and the smaller box 7x3. Since I've never had a garden before, we chose to just keep these instead of making it bigger. My biggest fear was that we'd dig up 1/2 the yard, plant a garden, and nothing would grow. So I dug up all the grass, rented a tiller, bought some garden soil (since it was mostly clay) and went at it.

In the larger box we planted:
6 tomato plants (Celebrity, Roma, Beefsteak, Early Girl, and 2 cherry)
Green and yellow bell peppers
2 jalapenos
Zucchini
Pickling Cucumbers

In the smaller box we planted:
4 Basil
2 Thyme
2 Parsley
2 Cilantro
4 Chives
3 Rosemary
4 Arugula
2 Strawberry

When we got done planting, I though, gee, we could have planted more. Little did I know that our plants would EXPLODE!!! and now our space is too small. It used to be easy to weed, but now I can't even see the ground around our plants. We should have gone for the bigger space...but there's always next year.

We've gotten a few strawberries (the birds have gotten more than us), I've been cutting herbs for recipes, and we have little tomato and peppers growing. I go out there every day to check progress and pull a few weeds.

Here are some pictures:

Herb Garden


Veggies (tomatoes in the back, zucchini front right, cucumbers front left, peppers in the middle)