Around the Garden

In honor of Earth Day, I thought I would show you around our backyard garden. Last year we were very unsuccessful in our gardening attempt. The squirrels beat us to every red tomato and our soil was pretty much useless.

This year we took a different approach, a raised garden. We did not want to spend a lot of money on the structure, so we got creative and used cedar trunks compliments of hurricane Ike to build our bed. It is a little funky looking but we love it.

This picture was taken at the end of February. We also thought a raised bed would be helpful in keeping Lola out.

Ha ha! I guess not. She used it like a throne.

As you can see, we invested in some light duty fencing. This worked well until she realized this past weekend how to crawl under it!!

As you can see, the plants are growing. Hooray!

We planted 2 cucumbers, 2 zucchini, 2 squash, 1 bunch of onions, carrots (but I don't think they will make), romaine, salad mix, and 2 bell peppers. We decided to try tomatoes again but we opted for yellow varieties because the birds and squirrels did not bother our yellow pear last year. We planted 2 yellow cherry, 1 yellow pear, 1 golden boy, 1 lemon, and a purple variety called German heirloom (i think).

This is my Italian parsley that came back from last year. I was sooo excited to see this! It looks better then what it did last year.

Thyme that came back as well. Sigh. I love love thyme! It is so good on roasted chicken!

Last but not least, my faithful Rosemary. I think you have to have a serious black thumb to kill Rosemary. I love this herb too.

Hope you enjoyed the tour.

By the way, did anyone watch the documentary on PBS titled Food Inc. last night? We did and it was very disturbing. If you get a chance, read the synopsis here.