Have a garden

Despite the fact that I didn’t try very hard, our garden was decent. I weeded like.. twice lol. However, we got tomatoes, jalapenos, leaf lettuce, carrots, broccoli, canteloupe and watermelon! The melons were small but so good! We haven’t tried the carrots or broccoli yet because they’re still growing. Mark’s mom got the tomatoes and didn’t seem to have any complaints.

I would say this goal was accomplished :) Next year will be better.. and I’ll try to get out and pick weeds more often lol.

We now have a watermelon and like 10 canteloupe! The tomatoes are turning red, carrots are getting bigger, got jalapenos (though two have are partly black, is that normal? lol) I’ll take pictures again when I can :)

Jalapenos are developing. I’ve seen 3 of them so far.

Tomatoes are also developing. There are about 6 of those so far.

Mark and I picked lettuce (leaves) yesterday and made a salad to take to his parents’.

I’m not sure about the rest.. broccoli, carrots, cantaloupe and watermelon. Still have some time left on those.

BTW, the picture is of my cat in the garden (I was picking weeds at the time) The date was June 28. The watermelon is on the right of the picture, and the cantaloupe is on the left. The plants are so much bigger now :)

Everything in the garden has come up, except the spinach. The jalapeno plants are flowering and the tomatoes are developing. I’m excited :) I’m hoping the rest of the fruit and veggies will develop as well. I did have to go buy some spray to get rid of the bugs that are eating the leaves.

I’ve been outside the past couple days picking weeds.. since we’ve been pretty lazy when it comes to doing that. I got about 1/3 of the garden cleared out, for now. I actually enjoy it somehow. It gets me out of the house and gets some color on my pale skin.

All of the herbs are growing like crazy. We have italian parsley, chives, sweet basil and spearmint.

Depending on how this garden turns out, we may try more next year.. and maybe even cherry trees, since we were given seeds.. and told that they do pretty well here. We’ll see :)

My boyfriend and I started our garden on May 24th. We planted jalapeno plants, watermelon, cantaloupe, broccoli, carrots, lettuce and spinach (plus some herbs elsewhere). All of the above, except the spinach (which we planted a week later), is coming up already! I will post more about how it’s coming along :) BTW, this is a picture of my kitchen window filled with herbs, flowers and jalapeno plants.. before we planted :)