Monday, May 26, 2008

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!

1 comment:

simone said...

Looking good! Cover your cat nip plant with chicken wire (if you don't already know) I want to grow one and all the girls say it won't have a chance of growing exposed in a yard with kitty around...it just like chocolate but for cats not girls.