This year I decided to try something new... Gardening! I knew this year would be a trial year and mainly for fun. I am pleasantly surprised and excited to say that I think my garden is a success!
The hard part was tilling the area I wanted to plant and coming up with a barrier between the plants and our dogs. The barrier was easy to come up with and Ryan built a wood box around the outside of the fence to help keep the grass out. The tilling... NOT so much. I decided to hand till it with a little metal twisty thing. It was a small enough area and should be easy, right? Yeah, If getting honey from a nest of killer bees is easy. Who knew that Texas ground was a centimeter dirt and a thousand inches pure rock? It was crazy. We dumped over 5 buckets full of rocks and that was only doing about 4 to 5 inches into the ground.... talk about hard labor.
The fun part was coming up with what I wanted to plant. I decided to plant snap peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, and bell peppers. I started a small herb garden as well. I planted about 6 different kinds, but only three that have came up and grew were cilantro, green onions, and basil. So far I have got almost two baskets full of tomatoes and a complete season of snap peas. My cucumbers and bell peppers are almost ready to be picked. I am very proud of my little, first time garden! Hopefully each year it will get better!
Some pictures of the garden!
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| My big helper! |
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| Area staked out! |
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| My helper doing what she liked, finding worms! |
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| Red bell pepper almost changed color completely! |
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| tomatoes! |
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| My huge cucumber! |
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