Update on the Garden!

This stuff is the secret to my very modest success. I used my food processor to chop up some pablano peppers and let them steep in water overnight, then strained the water into an old spray bottle. I added a little bit of oil too, as I'd heard there were some bugs that didn't like that. I take it out with me every few days and spray down my plants. I know it makes a difference, because when I forgot to spray some plants I put on the other side of the house for a few days, they were eaten alive!

 The rest of this post is really just pictures.

Lettuce! This is the best growing patch.

This is what a strawberry looks like when you have thieving squirrel neighbors.

The plant in the middle is a broccoli (I think)

This was the smallest of my tomato plants that barely made it to the first rung when I planted it.

Lettuce and carrots!

This tomato has also grown tremendously.

baby tomato!

Not so baby tomatoes, though still too green to eat.

The tall sprout there is a Sunflower from a very amazing and lovely friend.

Surprise Strawberries

I may not be any good at gardening. I don't know, it's really too soon to tell.

For starters though, I planted my tomatoes in mid-late April. The last frost is May 10th, so I might have to tuck my 'maters in with widdle blankets. They already have some frost damage, but I think they are okay so far. There's that.

My lettuce (or maybe carrots, not sure) is starting to sprout- which is exciting. However, if the weather gets cold overnight, I may be less happy about this. As long as they were in seeds, they were okay.

BUT. Here's the awesome part. Strawberries grew on their own! I mean, I'm sure upstairs dude planted them last year, and they just came back- but I probably wouldn't have tried to grow strawberries and they are doing the best out of all the plants so far. I have three plants in the garden, and there are several in the yard too. Exciting!

Garden!

I started a garden! I'm really excited about it, and I've enjoyed variably telling Jer that I want to go play in the dirt/cow poop and watching him shake his head because he knows what a germaphobe I am. Guys, I'm seriously a huge GERMAPHOBE. Capital letters totally a must. 

Anyway, Here's my garden as it looked this morning when I was done with it. I purchased tomato plants that someone else had started inside because I did not, and relocated a few strawberry plants that grew on their own from upstairs neighbor dude's garden last year. He moved out, I poached the plot.

I also planted broccoli, butternut squash, lettuce (3 kinds!), and carrots (3 kinds!). Did I mention I'm really excited? I'm really excited! The wood is for me to stand on, because it bothered me that I kept compacting the soil when I stepped in, so now I have something to stand on.

Also: I have no idea what I am doing.