Tuesday, June 26th 2007
My very first crop picked from my very first vegetable garden!
If you squint really hard, you will see 2 jalapeno peppers and 1 baby strawberry.
I’m not kidding. They’re there.
In the last 6 weeks or so my garden has gone from this:
To this:
What Jack(ass) hasn’t dug up is all squished together in a makeshift jungle but I still have high hopes. There are many, many, small green tomatoes down there that just need a few more weeks to ripen. And then it’s salsa time, baby!!
If you are interested in visiting a proper garden, just click here. I’m hoping to be like her someday in the next 50 years or so.
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I am very excited for you! I hope the spring gardening bug bites you every year and you try a little something new every spring to add to your list.
Congrats, MommaK! Good Job!
Shall I send your New Gardener certificate by snail mail or email?
Way to go Suzy green thumb! All that’s growing in my back yard is dead grass and concrete! Come see! :swimming:
It’s very exciting, MommaK!!
I get a kick out of growing my own food. Tonight I’m making pesto with some basil & garlic that we grew.
It’s fun to get in touch with your Mother Earth side, isn’t it?
I”m all about the Miracle Grow!! The squirrels keep eating my strawberries right before they ripen! I may have to get a slingshot.
This is your first year! You will learn what works best in your soil/sun and get better every year.
YEY! Just don’t eat the pepper and strawberries togeather. That would be a bit nasty :-)
sorry about the party invite :-( Maybe it was just accidentally overlooked????? I would invite you if I was having a party.
In fact…I’m having one for 4th of July…wanna come?
Everything I have ever tried to grow ends up withering and letting go of the mortal coil so I stay away from it. My brother (the fully trained up horticulturist) laughs at me so I beat him to death with the skills I don’t have.
I love your little garden, it looks like my gardens. You made me laugh. Jack(ass)!
Anyway, if you lived closer I’d have you whisk you over here and dress you up in a pair of silly pajamas and we’d have a margarita night and you’d forget all about this high school nonsense.
Enjoy the fruits, and vegetables, of you labors.
I’ve just barely started gardening, it looks great! I think my fiance would love it if we grew hot peppers at home.
:duh: gardens. hmph. I always forget the little things. You know, like, say, watering them. Or, maybe, you know, the difference between a weed and a plant. I “container gardened” some herbs which did well. Mostly. And some strawberries. Which the dog ever so nimbly nibbled off. Who’da thunk it?
My goodness, this is early to have jalapenos already.
I got a garden going. Will let you know how it performs, maybe in September.
I used to always have tomatoes and peppers and onions to make salsa. My old place had two grapevines, a plum tree, a cherry tree, an apple tree, a giant walnut tree and two almond trees.
I just do flowers and herbs now and try to keep everyone else’s CATS from spraying them, ugh.
i’m impressed. my thumb is far from green, but the hub has a tomato plant and a pepper plant growing on the patio. we were also given a “love plant” before the wedding, which i am leaving to him to keep alive!
ps. i don’t have pictures of my own patio garden up (maybe i will post those soon), but i did post photos from an amazing garden i went to in maui.
Hey, your garden looks great! All we have in the way of a “garden” is a couple of potato plants that are growing from the rotting/sprouting potato that my husband pulled out of the fridge, chopped up, and planted in the back yard as an experiment.
One day we hope to start a real garden!
I’m totally impressed. My ‘garden’ consists of two pots—one has herbs, the other a decent tomato plant but no red tomatoes yet. Oh, and yes, I did plant two blueberry bushes in the yard.
Hey, nice work!
Little tip — leave the second bunch of jalepenos on the plant for an extra week or two to continue ripening. They will turn a rich red color and be oh-so-sweet and spicy. Truly worth waiting for.
(If they turn black, that’s okay too. I believe it’s a middle step between green and red. They taste great then too!)
I’m Fairly new at gardening. I have Purple Sage, Silver thyme, mint, and spearmint. I was wondering how to trim these to use. just the leaves? no stem? stem? :wave: