The Conservatory Academy: May 2010

Okay kids, it's been a while, but well worth the wait. After some some serious encouragement by my gardening mentor, we set out to make and plant the raised garden bed. Much to Simon's surprise we did successfully build the raised garden box by ourselves (please see picture No.1, followed by picture No.2).

After some sweat, a lot of hard dirt, bugs and battling the monstrosity that is the lavender bush, we managed to plant a beautiful little garden. We did purchase two strawberry plants, a basil plant, rosemary, and a sweat pea plant that impersonated a cantaloupe plant (ahem, I didn't realize that some plants are liars...or maybe he is like the duck that thought he was a chicken in the movie "Babe"....the sweat pea plant that wanted to be a cantaloupe plant....I digress. Anyways, everything you see and will continue to see sprouting is grown from seed. Also, on either side of my raised box are tomato plants along with corn growing along the fence.

I truly could not have done this without my dear gardening expert and extraordinaire, Carrie Dunn. I promised you my first cantaloupe, but seeing as it is a sweat pea--you get those, not as exciting I know...I owe you! Thank you soooooooooooo much!

I am so excited to see these little guys grow!