Saturday, May 18, 2013

Our First Vegetable Garden



This is the start of my very first vegetable garden. I had been wanting to plant one for several years. My husband Curtis and I decided to put one near our back porch. We had an old brick patio where the raised garden beds are. The brick had fallen apart and didn't look good anymore. So this winter we pulled up the brick. We thought putting the raised beds in this area would work out great. He helped me by making the raised garden boxes and retainer wall. The area where the rock wall is was our first flower garden area. It had become over grown and not very attractive. The only thing I left planted was the Bee Balm and Hosta.

I wanted to add color to my garden. So I painted the trellis's blue and green. My tomato cages are colorful too. It makes it fun for me.

I had been reading up on companion gardening and decided to add herbs to our vegetables. I feel this will be an experimental and learning curve year. Hope to have some great home grown veggies and fresh herbs to add to my cooking. I have green beans, radishes and carrots to add still. I will be sharing how the garden is coming along throughout the summer.
 
This is the start of my fruit and veggie harvest. I can't wait to taste the sweet strawberries and yummy squash.

6 comments:

  1. Carlotta, The veggie garden is wonderful. I can't wait until you get the first produce.

    Becca

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    1. We all are excited about tasting all the goodies in our garden.

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  2. This is just lovely Carlotta! Lots of hard work and so satisfying!! Hope your post more pics as it progresses!! Have a great week ahead. Warm hugs ~ Jenn

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    1. Jenn, This really has been the best project this year. Makes us all happy. Maybe I will be able to get Hubby to try more veggies. :)

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  3. Love your veggie garden! You did a great job! And adding the colorful trellises and tomato cages definitely makes it fun! Can't wait to see how it progresses!

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    1. Thank you, Kathy! I can wait to share the progress.

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