Look how her garden grows!

It's been a while my friends, but while I've been busy at work my little garden has been flourishing.  Due to my garden consultant, Carrie Dunn, it has been properly pruned and maintained.  I have been able to harvest radishes, strawberries, basil, and soon lettuce and string beans! Below you will see some highlights from this week.

In order to grow in my gardening skills I began attending edible gardening classes at Roger's Garden and have been learning all sorts of interesting things...ie. there are no organic pesticides to kill grasshoppers...great...and that I will have to "breed"/"mate" my corn crop (good thing I have two!--don't want to have incestuous corn).

  

string beans

corn

lettuce

     radish about to be picked

                                                  

harvested radish

tomatoes--waiting patiently for them to turn yellow

(yellow pear tomatoes)

I'm currently taking suggestions and requests for fall and winter growth.

Weeks later....

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!

Photo No. 1: Birthday gift from the Dunns!!!

Photo No. 2: Before

Photo No. 3: After

Photo No. 4: Aerial view of garden bed

Photo No. 5: Carrie Dunn, Garden Extraordinaire

Photo No. 6: dirt encrusted hands

Seeds Planted (5.23.10):

carrots

radishes

romaine lettuce

baby lettuce

peas

onions

growth

What I am growing....pic. 1 is my baby tomato plant, pic. 2 are my potted seeds (WOW), pic. 3 is my bell pepper plant--I wonder what color it will be?  I hope it is yellow!