I decided to finally try and grow my first garden this year. It’s all potted plants, since I’m not sure about the soil quality around where I live… But they’re doing actually pretty good! Unfortunately the area that my backyard is facing, I only get partial sun… which is hard to grow a lot of specific types of herbs & veggies since a lot of them enjoy the sun. Right now I’m growing two baby tomato (Sweet 100’s) plants, chives, rosemary, oregano, chives, and chamomile. This was my first year attempting to grow anything, and they’re turning out fairly well. My tomato plants are growing a lot taller than they’re supposed to, I guess because they’re reaching for the sun more… but they’re still producing lots of tomatoes. They’re delicious eating them right off the stalk!! It feels amazing eating your own food you’ve grown yourself because you KNOW where its come from, and it just tastes that much better because of it (probably a psychological thing, but hey, it works).

Since I had no idea how to plant the chamomile or how it would grow exactly, I used bamboo reeds to tie the plants up tall… next year I think I will just try putting them in a big pot and seeing if they’re happier growing like that instead of having to grow straight up.

I’ve just harvested my rosemary, oregano, and some chamomile flowers last week & are drying right now on some racks. Hopefully they turn out well! :) Now I just need to buy jars to store them in >.<

Definitely making sure next year before planting that I have everything already for harvesting afterwards…

Hope to try growing peppermint next year as well. I have to find out if any of my herbs can be grown indoors for the winter…