It’s been a while since I last posted and a lot has happened in the time I have been away from this site. We FINALLY have our garden!!

Before I can get to the new garden you are going to need a little background. Around mid-April I planted new seeds. Of the original seeds that Jack and I planted the only ones that grew well enough (if at all) were in containers. They did not fair very well in the little seedling trays. I bought some new seedling dirt and replanted the trays. The new seeds grew like crazy. In just a few days they had sprouted up and there was no stopping them after that. They got to be huge! We weren’t able to move until mid-May and the plants that had been growing all along in the containers were getting so large we didn’t know what we were going to do with them until then. The pumpkins were trying to climb everything and they were doing a pretty good job. They had become completely wrapped around my blinds that were covering the window. It took me a good 5 minutes to untangle them before I could open the blinds. They had also decided that they were going to attack the plants around them. They were wrapped around my new bamboo plant and they were trying to climb the corn and pea (at least we thought it was a pea…). We ended up moving the weaker plants to another window so that the pumpkin could not smother them. We moved two weekends ago and the plants took the move okay. They rode in the back of Jack’s car and stayed in there until we had a safe place to put them. We put them on our back patio which seemed like a good idea at the time but after a day or so most of the plants seemed to wilt and die. I think that the seedlings that were growing in trays weren’t strong enough to be put outside yet. We were able to save a few of them but most didn’t make it One of the plants that actually did better after the move was the one we originally thought was a pea. The corn had begun to wilt and look pretty sad before we moved and when we were moving I managed to hit the center plant and I broke it slightly. We had to use a hair-tie and a clothespin to hold it up but after being set outside in the sun it seems to be doing much better. We always thought was a pea growing with the corn. One day at the old apartment it had tiny pretty little purple flowers (I took some pictures but I do not have them on my computer right now). A few days later a little pod like thing started growing. It looked like a pea at first but after a few days it was a little tiny yellow wax bean. The plant that we thought all along was a pea was actually a yellow wax bean plant. I am not sure how we got it confused but now we know. I will post pictures of the little yellow wax beans soon.

Yesterday afternoon Jack and I finally got to plant our garden. After some debate we decided that the best location for our garden would be in the existing flowerbed here at the house. We didn’t think our landlords would appreciate us digging up the yard and since we don’t have a whole lot of yard to begin with we didn’t think the roommates would like it much either. I was also concerned about people walking through the garden if we just put it in the middle of the yard. We left the existing plants in the garden but since the previous tenants appeared to have cared more about partying it up than yard work there were only a few shrubbery and some small lily like plants in one area and the other only had Lily of the valley. It was easy to plant around them and we found plenty of room for everything. It only took a few hours to plant everything and I think it looks great! We bought a pepper plant that was already growing and some tomato plants because the ones that we tried to grow didn’t grow quickly enough to be planted outside. We are still taking care of the tomatoes that did grow but they aren’t going to be ready for the outside for a long time. I don’t have pictures of the garden yet because it was too dark when we finished last night and it has been raining all day today. When I have pictures I will post them.

I can’t wait until things start growing! Stay tuned for updates

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