Our garden is growing!

I am sooo glad we decided to do this. And when I say "we", I mean, "I am so glad I decided to do this and talked Chris into helping me." =)

Aidric absolutely loves his garden. Every single morning, he asks to see his cucumbers (still inside, as we sowed the seeds about 3 weeks ago and are just getting ready to transplant them). When we go outside, he fills up his purple watering can and carefully walks around, giving his plants just the right amount of water. He can't wait to see if there are any more "green things" coming up from the ground. I can't wait until we actually get vegetables and he realizes things will get even more exciting!

He is currently MOST excited about our sunshine flower. (sunflower) We sowed the seeds inside about 3 weeks ago and have been watching it grow in a paper cup in our windowsill ever since. We finally transplanted it yesterday, but I'm honestly not sure how it's going to do. Aidric was carrying it and in his rush to push past Juliet and get out the door, he tripped and took it down with him. It was in a fragile state when we got it in the ground.


That's Juliet's head poking out from the other side of our 2 tomato plants. (We planted these about 2 weeks ago with help from cousin Gracie. They were seedlings when we got them, but have REALLY grown since then. We saw the first flower blooming on them today!)

As for Jules, I wish I could say she is as big of a help as Aidric, but that would be a complete lie. She is quite the little pest in our garden! She wants to get in and DIG. Unfortunately, I think her digging is the reason our basil is not really taking off. It sits at the edge of the garden Juliet likes best =)



Speaking of the basil, this is it. We put these seeds in about 2 weeks ago, I think.


Here we have one of our pepper plants. This came in a set of 6 seedlings- a variety of hot peppers, including jalepeno, serrano and caribbean.


Aidric is pointing out one of our lettuce plants. I'm so excited these are growing! We put 2 varieties in...a butter leaf and a romaine. I THINK this one is the butter leaf.


Here are our onions. I know this is a really hard picture to see- they are the stringy like things you see in the square closest to the wood.


Finally, our flowers. We sowed 6 seeds, one in each of our square foot spaces. We now have 6 seedlings and I'm so excited to actually get flowers. Aidric is going to looove it!! The flowers are nasturtiums and I got a variety pack, so it will be fun to see what colors come up!