The Garden Grows!

How did we spend our second weekend of home ownership? Killing grass. With the 8,000,000 things on our to do list, this one had to be in the top five so that I could plant a vegetable garden.

So far, it's my favorite part of the house. I've been spending at least an hour a day back there weeding and feeding the little buggers. Most of the plants went in mid-April, died, and were replaced with bigger/harder to kill plants mid-May. Lesson learned: the mulch should not touch the stem of the plant.

The first hints of produce are starting to arrive.

Zucchini

Super Sweet 100 Tomatoes

Celebrity Tomatoes

San Marzano Tomatoes

Habernero Pepper

Romaine and Mesculan  Lettuce (from seed)

Three varieties of sage (small one to the left is sprouted from seed)

Parsley (from seed)

We also ended up with some "volunteer" plants that grew out of our compost. I know that this is some type of squash, but have not yet determined the type. 

 I've also started some container herbs which will eventually be moved to the kitchen window sill so we can use them through the winter.

From left to right: lemon basil, tuscan blue rosemary, barbecue rosemary and lemon thyme.

We're still waiting on some of our other veggies to start showing fruit. We've got: 

Better Boy Tomatoes

Sugary Tomatoes

Yellow Pear Tomatoes

Mucho Nacho Jalapenos

California Wonder Bell Peppers

Sweet Red Bell Peppers

Carnival Mix Bell Peppers

Black Beauty Eggplant

White Eggplant

Nantes Carrots

Kaleidoscope Mix Carrots

Fingers crossed that everything survives the bunny family that lives in our yard!