our garden!!

For as long as Dane and I have been married, I have been waiting for the day when we had a place where we could plant a garden.  In that sense, it is hard being a renter--never knowing how long you will be in one place and never really feeling any ownership. 

Well, we finally decided to stop waiting this year.  We didn't have a place to plant a garden so we built one.  We are very proud of out little planter boxes that are behind our house. They are each 4'x4' and 12" deep.   Our neighbors who live underneath us helped us build them about a month ago and have put a lot of work in with us to find the soil and fill them, and then with the planing and care of our plants. 

We bought most of our plants from the Provo High School FFA club for a great deal as tiny little sprouts.  It is really exciting to see how far they have come!  This is really the first year that I have done anything like this, and really hope that we will be able to put some kind of fence around it before the deer find us.  As much as we love local wildlife, we would like to enjoy the fruits of our labors!

This is the first box:  On the left, from top to bottom,  we have 2 basil plants and 8 pepper plants (Anaheim, jalapeno, yellow and sweet).  On the right side, you can see our home-made tomato cages surrounding our 8 tomato plants (beef steak, yellow, purple, cherry, and tomatillo).  Those little white dots are pesky little seeds that are EVERYWHERE!  The wind brought them in and they are the source of all of our weeds so far.  Luckily though they are pretty small and easy to get rid of.

And for the second box: can you see the row of green beans along the back?  From left to right again, there is a cilantro plant in the back, next a tiny cucumber plant (we had 2 but one has already died so we pulled it out and this one is not looking so good either...) and in the place of the dead cucumber we have a roma tomato plant.  The middle column from back to front is 4 little onion plants (again, pretty sure one is already dead) and the 4 broccoli plants (I think the broccoli gets the growing award).  And the last column on the right you can see our 2 lettuce plants and 3 little cabbages. 

We still have a few more things to plant like watermelon, squash, zuccini and a pumpkin plant, but they all need a lot of space, so we are most likely going to need to build another box.