Garden Updates

Since I just started the blog, I wanted to also post the updates on the garden we started growing last Saturday. It's been raining A LOT, and everything looks like it's holding up really well!

5/2 - The onions all started growing. We planted them from bulbs that we got for free from a community garden that we've been helping in. They had extras and we were glad to use them! We also had learned how to plant them from planting them at the community garden.

5/2 - The herb container on the left. The dill is doing well. Whenever we went to plant it, it wasn't doing well. We had bought our plants at Lowes a week before planting them because that week they were on sale for $1.50. Unfortunately, the dill plant wasn't looking so good, I'm assuming because the soil was very dry when I had gotten it out the day before planting and it must need more sunlight than the other plants. Anyway, I watered it and put it in the sun and the next day it was looking better. After planting, it's still doing well. I had to cut off the leaves that had already grown on it because they were dead, but it's growing new ones very very well! The chives haven't grown it. Phoebe's flower plant is doing well. The strawberries also look good, no fruit yet.

5/4 - These are my crazy magic pansies that were suppose to die over the winter but didn't. In the middle is a rosemary plant. Whenever the pansies do die (maybe this winter?) I'll take them out and this pot will be just for the rosemary. It's perinnial and could grow really big after time, so it gets a pot all to itself. It smells amazing!

5/4 - Zuccini plant in the front looking okay...we'll see how it does. We got the seedling from that community garden. In the back is the tomato plant, it's growing really well. I'll have to start tying it to the stick thing soon. It's grown a few inches just in this past week!

5/4 - The two cucumber mounds. We also got the seeds for these from the community garden. We were so blessed that they had extras they weren't going to use. The plants just started sprouting today and they look amazing! They're growing very well. I'm going to have to figure out more ways to use cucumbers!

5/4 - The onions are doing very very well, and the bell pepper plants on the right are doing good too!

5/4 - The sunflowers started sprouting today too! I imagine they'll grow very fast because they could grow to be 7-12ft in only 75-90 days! We have a row of them in the back of the garden. They're the kind you can harvest, so they'll be beautiful and tasty too!

5/4 - How the garden is looking today. Everything is growing well and animals haven't been getting in them. I did see some bug chewing on the zuccini and the basil, but nothing too bad. Dan sprayed the yard for bugs a couple days ago (we have two huge trees in our yard and get a lot of weird bugs and moles), so hopefully it'll help keep pests down, but keep good bugs in.