Happy Memorial Day!

Memorial Day weekend has finally arrived and marked the unofficial start to summer. It also pretty much marks the unofficial end to planting season - the planting season that lasts all of about 2 weeks if you want to get stuff in before autumn frost.

My garden is finally in the ground! I have to give much credit to my husband who dug all the holes for the plants and my mom who planted everything...and pretty much picked everything out too. I am awful with trying to visualize what something will look like; I'm much better at maintaining it once it's already there. All the vegetables that I had preplanted back in April have died. I put them in the ground and they lasted less than 24 hours before they just tipped over and gave up. Sigh. So it was off to the nursery to buy new plants.

This time I have planted tomatoes, chives, parsley, dill, carrots, green beans, strawberries, and raspberries, plus a variety of flowers.

So here is the overall shot of the garden. It looks small, but it's actually bigger than I thought I'd have this year, so I'm happy with it.

Some of the things you see above are my 3 tomato plants (Roma, Beefsteak, and Bush Champion)

Also my flowers and bushes...

And of course, no garden would be

complete without a catnip plant and

a kitty to watch over it!

8 Weeks!

So it's been exactly 1 month since I last posted and also exactly 1 month from the day I found out I am pregnant!! So needless to say I've been a little distracted over the last 4 weeks and have woefully neglected both my blog and my sad little garden.

The garden is still growing, however, and most plants are flourishing, although begging to be put into some real ground. We have dug up the garden plot (courtesy of Joseph and my dad) and tonight we'll be shopping for some shrubs and flowers to mix in with the vegetables. I also have 2 raspberry bushes to plant, as well as hanging baskets of grape tomatoes and strawberries. Hopefully I will have the energy I need to get stuff in the ground this weekend and next weekend, as this is the heart of the wee little planting season that we get here in Michigan. If I wait too much longer, I won't be able to harvest anything before the frost hits.

So stay tuned!! I will be updating with actual photos soon, I promise!