Saturday, March 28, 2009

Green Thumb Crew, Inc.





Here's our garden... it's only about 1 week old, but it's looking good. We didn't grow what you see from seeds.... we bought them at a nursery but we'll be planting seeds this week. Josh read that you want a mixture of both nursery "starter" plants and plants from seeds so that they harvest at different times... you don't want 2 weeks of produce produce produce... you want your goods to take turns in harvest... so that's what we're hoping for. What you see is a mixture of tomatoes (cherry and roma), lettuces, strawberries, bell peppers, chili rellano (you know, spicing it up), and green onion. We're planting from seeds a mixture of squashes and zucchini, sugar snap peas, and cucumbers.
Those cute little flowery shruby looking things behind the garden boxes are 2 pink jasmine plants. We wanted to smell of the jasmine but something to grow along the fence... so hopefully those will start to climb the fence and bloom bloom bloom!!
More to come on our herbs... we'll be growing those in pots at our front entry way or just outside our kitchen door (we just discovered we get sun back along that fence, so that may be the best place...).

2 comments:

benson said...

how great is that! Fresh veggies and herbs-hooray!

Chris said...

Nice!

Matt Cook has gotten crazy about gardening--he read a book called the Square Foot Gardening method that got him all pumped up about it.

We have some jasmine that's done well on the side of our house. It did grow pretty fast, after only two years it's pretty huge now. And pretty!