the thumb is getting greener!!

I haven’t posted about the garden in quite some time! Once the actual porch structure was done, it took us a few weeks to get motivated enough to finish the planters. We wanted to make sure once those were started, we could finish them quickly. We ended up finishing them completely within two days. It was extremely exhausting and i found muscles i didn’t know existed, but it was worth it.

Now that I have somewhere to put things, i am experimenting with some different vegetables. The “flower side” of the planter looks really pathetic at the moment, and I’m thinking i might start over. The veggies I have NOT killed are bell peppers, heatwave tomatoes, artichoke, cucumber, bunching onions and watermelon. I luckily have my uncle to thank because he helped me choose things that would encourage me this year. I also have peppermint, orange mint and lavender growing…and of course, my apple tree.

I am chalking this year up to gaining a bit of basic gardening knowledge. My friend’s mother just moved back and bought an acre of farm land in Los Ranchos, and she said I could come learn there, too, which i am totally excited for. I am interested in researching some different flowers that do well in new mexico that don’t look like they belong in new mexico, but after some successful vegetable growing, am tempted to make the whole thing a vegetable garden. I am excited to learn alot this year before the next growing season. After talking to a gardener at Los Poblanos, I think I am going to try my hand at garlic in November.

Steve hung the stars in the backyard yesterday, making it complete. Well, making that half of the yard complete. The other half we just ignore and try to pretend it looks pretty. We’ll get to that next, as soon as Steve and I decide on what we want to do.

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