Things Are Growing!

This is what the garden looks like currently. Those walls of water in the planter box are all tomatoes, the milk jug has basil under it.

The broccoli and cabbage plants are doing awesome!!

The only cucumber plant that is surviving!

 My only lemon cucumber plant bit the dust after about a week.

The other pickling cucumber is following the lemon cucumber to it's dusty grave. Sigh.

Check out those fun spiral vines though!

Lettuce!!

This is a first for me growing lettuce, and I thought I had buried it too deep, but I was so excited to finally see it popping up!

(This picture is really bright, I was trying to get better at manual mode.)

Sugar snap peas!!

The Dude is excited about these.

I feel like there is a lot of debris in my garden lot...

Early Girl tomato plants!

I have 4 sets of these plants and these two are doing well, the other two are doing so-so. The San Marzanos are so-so too, which saddens me!! I really want everything to pull through and do well!   

Those aren't weeds, those are carrot tops! 

This was another seed I had thought I had buried too deep never to see again. Miracles and blessings people!!

Chickens On The Loose

We let the chickens out the other night. All were excited for a chance at freedom except one that chose to linger in the coop.

You can see her hanging out under the walk way up the coop. 

They all migrated by the door a lot.....

and they like the little space between the coop and the fence.

Crazy birds!!

Apple Tree!

Our dear friend had a left over tree once she was done planting hers. She so kindly offered us the extra one.

Yay!! I have always wanted a fruit tree. It is a Extra Hardy Apple Combo Alaska Combo Semi-Dwarf. It has 5 apples grafted into it, Honeycrisp, Lodl, Noriand, State Fair, Zestari. I am only familiar with Honeycrisp out of those 5.

I love, love apple tree blossoms!! They are my absolute favorite!! And they smell absolutely wonderful!!!

Yay, for Garden Space!

The garden is in!! Doesn't it look wonderful?! 

We got some free compost from the city, and once we had spread that out over the garden, I got to planting.

This picture was taken a couple of weeks ago, so it is a little behind. I had planted everything on my list, except the 13 tomato plants, basil and two hot pepper mix plants. 

I waited on planting the tomato and basil plants until we got more compost for the raised bed area.

After we had spread out the compost and I went to go plant in the raised bed, I hit that stump sooner than I had wanted to with the shovel. So we decided to get another load of compost to fill it in. We didn't have time to go get more until the following week.

I am crossing my fingers that I have more of green thumb than I think I do!