and so we did! We planted our very first garden today! It was a LOT of work, but we’re done, and now we’re just waiting for the little plants to grow. Most of them are supposed to start sprouting in 1-2 weeks, but I’m sooo anxious! I’m like a little kid at Christmas.
I was going to take pictures of all the events – going to the dump to find bookcases and compost, digging and filling and planting. But then I remembered that our stupid little camera is out of batteries, and I don’t have any more AAA’s. Some day we will have picture-taking abilities again. *sigh*
We planted tomatoes, four colors of bell peppers (green, red, orange, and yellow!!), cherry tomatoes, beans, peas, sugar snap peas, lettuce, spinach, broccoli, green onions, onions, carrots, and chives, basil, and cilantro (pretty much the only fresh herbs we ever use).
Everything was planted from seed, so we’re hoping to have our first harvest here in 2-3 months (that’s what the backs of all the packets say).
We also weed-whacked our entire backyard (the landscaping folks don’t do backyards). It looks pretty good. Now that it’s short-ish, I’m going to just mow it once every two weeks or so. I’m also going to start watering so hopefully, in a few months we’ll have a nice green lawn in the backyard (and hopefully before then, we’ll have a nice fence to border our lush green grass!)
It makes our little dump of a house feel a little more like home. These places are so depressing, if I don’t do SOMETHING with the yard, etc I would be really ready to leave. Now I’m cool with staying here as long as needed. Besides – I do really like the year-round growing season.
Speaking of which – folks may be wondering why on earth I am plating a garden in SEPTEMBER. Yes, that is because you can pretty much plant at any time all year round. We’ve actually just begun the “summer” months here, so my plants will have plenty of sunshine.
Love it!
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