My Garden!

This year, I'm really excited about having a garden. I've made enough mistakes in the past years that I'm hoping this year, it will turn out. Plus, I've got all sorts of plans for my organic veggies :)

We had a mild Winter/Spring, so in March, I bought some seeds and had Mark and Aspen make me a couple raised planter beds.

The planter beds. I'm hoping that the sprinkler system will water the garden well enough in the Summer so that I won't have to worry about it when we are gone.

We started by planting the seeds in egg cartons inside. Once our seedlings were up and growing, we transfered them to the garden area. I also planted more seeds directly in the garden so that hopefully I'll get a longer harvest period.

The garden is growing! These last two pics were taken a couple weeks ago when we actually had sun.

Lettuce, red and orange peppers, and chili peppers planted in the first bed. Sugar snap peas and yellow squash in the second one..........for now! I'll be adding more veggies soon.

I'm keeping five tomato plants on the deck, four in pots and one in a topsy turvy planter. I'm SO excited about having fresh tomatoes! I've also got my spinach and basil on the deck. Since it's been pouring down rain, and I'm lazy, I'll post pics of them later. We have been eating fresh lettuce and spinach from the garden for the past week, and I'm hoping I won't have to buy lettuce for the next couple months.