Behind the cut, a few photos of the garden. The ones of the tomato flowers and the Chinese broccoli didn't come out, but here are five photos of what I've come to call "my plant babies". someotherguy is going to watch over them while I'm gone, and when I get back, I'm hoping for some tomatoes, at the very least. Looks like the beets will really yield, too. ( Read more... )

More marigolds are sprouting. Also three out of four lettuces, and TONS of beets. Happy happy, and I got to show dryadgrl around the garden, and she was so cute and happy about it that it made me even gladder about the whole thing. We ate little samples of stuff as we went -- mint, mostly -- and it was so cool. She tasted my apple, and I don't mean that ( Read more... )

Behind the cut, more garden pictures. This time, I took some photos of other people's plots and some of the common area. I think the whole thing is looking so pretty right now. Next, I should make myself a gardening icon. Maybe Mr. Froggy wouldn't mind.

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Yay, seedlings!

Chinese broccoli (*wave at stonebender*), lettuce, and marigolds are sprouting. And my new sprayer head gives me a nice, fine mist that doesn't disturb my soil. Happy happy ( Read more... )

( Behind the cut are six thumbnails of our new community garden plot. Very happy with it so far, not that you could tell. )

When I got home last night, someotherguy had *already built the garden box*! I knew it was a possibility, but he didn't mention it on the way home, so I was completely prepared to make the box after dinner. It is lovely! Behind the second cut below, you can see photos.

Took the box to my plot, filled it with Mel's Mix, and came home to eat pork chops and ( Read more... )

So my total cost for this garden has been $108 and change. It would have been more if people hadn't so graciously given me stuff, and I don't foresee any major expenditures for the rest of the year. I've already gotten well over a hundred dollars' worth of hobby fun out of it, and if I get some lovely fresh tomatoes out of it, even better.

My hands are stinging from something sting-y in the weed pile. My fingers are pierced with rose thorns. I'm hot and sweaty and stinky, and I'll bet you can guess the next part -- I'm *oh* *so* *happy*.

someotherguy did TONS of work, unsolicited. Our garden is much less weedy than it was last night. My adorable solar-powered light-up-bellied frog is ( Read more... )

6 different tomato plants (thank you, cassidyrose and ptor!)
strawberries and verbena (thank you, twostepsfwd!
beets
carrots
loose leaf lettuce
marigolds
anaheim chilis
chinese broccoli
thai basil
tricolor bush beans
possibly favas
japanese eggplant
onions

Yay!

So all I think about these days, it sometimes seems, is my garden. What shall I plant, how shall I build my box, and so on. I am more functional than I usually am when I'm in Noo Luv mode, but my mind is impatient to think about the garden when I'm forcing it to think about other things ( Read more... )