Growing Vegetables

Jeff looked at me yesterday and said, "Do you want to put in a vegetable garden?"

It was like he forgot I was my Grandma Kienow's granddaughter and Uncle Bob's niece..."YES!!!"

Our only problem was measuring our enthusiasm against our time and effort...

The Stats:

2-2x8 green treated 16 footers

Assorted screws, saws, drills, and workbenches

15 40-lb bags of topsoil (it was red, not black, but still topsoil)

6 wheelbarrow of composted dirt from our backyard pile

3 wheelbarrows of clay (regular dirt down here)

2 Celebrity Tomatoes

2 Better Boy Tomatoes

1 Red Pepper

1 Green Pepper

1 Jalepenos Plant (I am sensing salsa...)
1 Eggplant

Green beans from seed

Green leafy lettuce from seed

Basil from seed

Oregano from seed

Cilantro from seed

Rosemary from seed

And I'm so happy!

Jeff and I definitely stopped and smelled the gardenias on the way in after our crazy day. I wish I could bottle them up and sniff year round. (Wait, maybe that's already been done in a perfume. If anyone has suggestions, I'll take them.)