Green Thumb

For the last three years we have tried to grow our own garden. Tried and failed.

The first year, we planted seeds in the garden bed. Then a huge biblical rainstorm came through. After what seemed like 40 days and 40 nights of rain, the garden was completely washed out.

The second year, we grew plants indoors from seeds and Gabe planted them in the garden bed. This time, however, he planted them in mounds so that they would survive any big rainstorms. It seemed to be going well, but the plants all eventually died never producing any fruit.

The third year, we didn't even try. With the new baby, it was too much to think about.

This year, though, Gabe had a brilliant idea to make raised vegetable beds. Making the bed frames was easy, but the filling with dirt was a long, hard process.
But all the hard work seemed to pay off. We cheated a little bit and bought plants, instead of growing from seed. We started small this year, planting tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, a couple of pepper plants and a rhubarb plant. They came out looking pretty good.
That was April.


This is now...
This was part of the blood and sweat we shed last week, but I think the garden looks darn good!


And here is the tomato bed. We bought around 8 plants thinking we would lose some of them, but they are all thriving. There is going to be a lot of pico de gallo this summer.
Oooooh, I can't wait!

Here is the squash/cucumber/pepper bed...
I can't wait to get my hands on these zucchini. My favorite!!!
It is just so amazing what comes out of these plants in such a short period of time. That Man Upstairs is pretty cool.
Yep, after years of shattered hopes, disappointment, and disaster, we are keeping our fingers crossed that this is our year for garden success.