Oh the ....

.... sorrow, yet, oh the ...

... JOY!


Though the frost killed off my cherry tomato plant, I can rejoice that I FINALLY have sproutlings from my carrots! These little fellows made my day, I also got around to planting my blueberry plant in my garden table, even as hesitant as I was to put something that has LARGE potential in something that isn't meant for such growth. We'll see how it works, but for now, I'm hopeful!

Plant Love

Here's what I've been working on -


On the top I planted carrots from seeds (which makes me VERY nervous!), the middle and bottom left are strawberry plants, the middle right is a cherry tomato plant, and the bottom right is spinach from seed (also very nerve-racking!).

Top - red lettuce, middle - romaine lettuce, bottom - bonnie spinach

And the ever so bothersome blueberry plant that I desperately wanted! On the tag it says it can grow up to 5-8 FEET! Shocking to me, someone who has never dealt with blueberries, except for in the grocery store! For now it remains in the planter it came in ... where shall I plant this supposed BEAST?!

All Day Project

So after visiting in MN and seeing my mother-in-law's table garden, I thought it would be an awesome project for Paul to do on a beautiful Saturday :) And boy has it taken all day, but some awesome progress has been made!

First he had to attach the 2x20x8 boards to make the foundation -

Then the finished foundation -


Next we attached the window screen to one end of the foundation. The screen will keep the dirt from escaping -


After the screen was stapled down and secure, we put chicken wire down for support, to keep the mesh from falling and breaking. At times the wire was hard to manipulate, but we got it to work. The pieces weren't long enough to we thought maybe we'd eventually put a 2x4 across the open space that you can see -


This is as far as we've gotten so far. Hopefully the next post, it will be 100% finished. Paul still has the legs to attach, but then it's completely done, minus the optional 2x4 underneath!

I'm not sure what ALL I want to plant yet, but I do know that there will be garlic, spinach, lettuce and a ton of herbs. I'd eventually like to it so that we can use the majority of our spices right out of our garden.

Check back to see the progress :)