Green Thumbs

  I hadn’t looked at the garden for a few days (other than to water it) and went out on Saturday and THERE WERE LITTLE PLANTS GROWING IN MY GARDEN! I went out today after church to show Vince all the little plants, and there were even MORE little plants! So far the only plants that haven’t germinated are the lettuce and the bell peppers. I took pictures of all the little plantlings. I am SO excited.

I took pictures of the green beans, peas, sugar snap peas, spinach, lettuce and broccoli here. I had two broccoli plants, but one of them got eaten by something (I think a raccoon… odd, I know). This week’s project (aside from fixing up the backyard) is going to be animal-proofing the garden. I know it was a little digging animal, because it had been digging around in the dirt as well. And I found little paw prints on the front porch. 

The pictures of the really watery plants below are of my basil and my tomato plant. I accidentally watered them too much. They look much better today. I’ve started putting them out on the front porch (more sun) and hopefully they will start growing faster. The backyard is pretty shady, unfortunately. Anyway, I have two tomato plants (no bell peppers are peeping through, yet, but hopefully I’ll see some this week!)

The weather has been very warm and sunny, which I’m sure is helping my little garden! It was also sprinkling a little yesterday evening and this morning, so the extra moisture (without water) is always nice. The backyard lawn is growing in pretty well. My goal is to have the backyard looking nice (and hopefully fenced!) by our birthday BBQ on the 26th. We’ll see. It will only be fenced if we can get our dislocation allowance this week or next. I’m going to go in this week to harp on them to pay us. I’m hoping it will work out.   

(P.S. The picture at the top is me pointing to a little sprout coming out of one of the bulbs my friend gave me. They were all pretty dead looking when I got them from her, but I’m trying to nurse them back to life in my front garden. On Saturday I found a little leaf pushing its way to the sun!! Hooray plants! – I’ve decided that I really love gardening. Some people love crafts… I love plants. And the outdoors. Love outdoors.)