The Garden is Planted!

Dave's  been dieing to have a garden since we moved into the house. With all the flower beds we already had in the yard, I was a little reluctant to add more weeding to our weekends, but now that it's all in I'm getting more excited to taste the fruits of our labors.

In the main garden we planted about 9 tomato plants, 3 bell pepper plants, 4 hot pepper plants, corn, and green beans. half way through planting, it started pouring rain on us, followed by high winds. So we've covered the tomatoes, bell peppers, and hot peppers with milk cartons and jugs to keep out the wind and cold. Hopefully it won't snow again so everything will survive.

To the left of the garden is my favorite part, the strawberry patch! We got starts from my parents a month and half ago  and today planted spinach on the end of the plants. We're told the two plants help each other, which is why we put them together. Some of Strawberries have started to flower! Hopefully we'll get berries this year, but if not next year. They looked pretty sad when we planted them, so it's encouraging to see them looking so vibrant and green now.

Next comes the wild children of the yard, the rasp-babies! We planted 11 of these last year. Most of them died, so we tried again this year, and got more success. We had starts taking over the world! We had to thin them out and transplant more starts so they were in a more uniform row. We also read online if you steak around them and tie twine to hold them back, it keeps more orderly. This keeps the plants out of the way of the lawn mower and hopefully will be strong enough to tie them to if they need.

On the far end, we have one blackberry plant too, which is looking good! Hopefully we'll be able to get one to two more of these in the future so we can have an abundance of rasp-babies and blackberries! We just love fruit!

Now we're just hoping it will stay warmer than 50 degrees out, so our little garden will survive. I'm ready for spring and summer!