It's been years since I have had the pleasure of actually having a garden. First I moved in with a boyfriend and we just never got around to a garden. Then, I moved out from with him and in with my mother. The summer was just too confusing to worry about a garden. From mom's I moved to an apartment, no garden. From the apartment I moved in with a boyfriend, he had no interest in a garden in HIS yard. From his house I moved in to another house but the landlord said no to messing up the yard.
Well, finally, here I am back living with my mom. By the way, I intend to stay this time!
Over the years my son has literally turned my mom's back yard in to a junk yard. The neighbor man, wanting to see the yard cleaned up has been helping to clean up. I was able to come up with a small space at the back of the house.
I planted 6 tomato plants. I planted 6 pepper plants including green bell, red bell, banana and jalapeno. I also planted a row of lettuce seed and a row of carrot seed.
Planting was later this year. The weather has been crazy, I didn't know if it was every going to really warm up. Lately we've been having a LOT of rain here in Kansas. I will say I notice a lot of growth and I do thank the rain for that.
One tomato plant is flowering and now has tomatoes growing.....I assume its the cherry tomatoes. There were 2 flowering, but one storm produced 80-90 mph winds one night and a storm window fell and broke, right on my garden. The other flowering tomato plant was completely broke off at the low stem. I actually stuffed the stem back in to the ground. I notice today the plant has come out of its wilting and is standing back up again! It must have produced more roots. I'm really glad now that I didn't just throw it away.
The other tomato plants and the pepper plants are still quite smallish, but I pray they will continue to strive and in the weeks to come provide us with some food.
The lettuce started popping up 2 weeks ago, but doesn't really seem to be getting any larger. I always enjoyed lettuce since you can cut it off and eat off the same plants all summer.
The carrots are finally noticable to be carrots growing, but I am betting another 6-8 weeks before we can eat any of those.
I usually also always had cucumbers, strawberries, peas, green beans, radishes, and sometimes even potatoes growing. I am so happy to actually be gardening again this year that I don't care how small or large the garden is. There is always next year to make it bigger and better.
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but now we are back to our original Home where my Sis-in-law developed the passion
fantastically in the open space of first floor they share is a worth to talk about !!!
there is just something "up-lifting" about growing your own food and caring for the plants ......
My gal and I miss gardening too. Someday we hope to have a little country house where we can grow some of our own vegetables again.
Best of Luck to ya.
Sounds like you have a great little kitchen garden going already:)
It will be fun, if need be you can always grow some extra tomatoes in a bucket until you get the rest of the junk cleared out.
A little chair to sit in the sunshine and sit and smile at your garden is a good thing too:)
A couple of flowers - because they are pretty - maybe some basil next to the tomatoes. The joy of gardening is yours again - make the most of it - WTG!
I get the front yard and patio area and my Son gets the far back yard and the vegetables. Fair division of areas I think.
Just posted an article about my garden and your entry showed up as a related article so I just had to come over and post.
I have the black thumb of death.
so I ran up and viewed the date...WHEW....
you almost had me moving to Kansas again....rofl