Our First Real Garden

Shocking photos!

In chatting with Marcie last night, I realized I wanted to share an interesting development in our lives:  our garden!

Against all odds, we have made our desert bloom like a rose...sure, we've neglected our roses in the process, but you can't eat roses, mister!

We used the book All New Square Food Gardening by Mel Bartholomew as our bible, and voila!  Growth!  Anyway, we had a lot of fun planning, building, planting, tending, and now, harvesting!

We have loved eating home-grown green and yellow beans, basil, onions, some tiny corn.  And even though we just survived the hottest Las Vegas July on record--ever, we are still getting tomatoes and zucchinis and lots of cucumbers, and are holding our breath for our watermelons.

So here are some before and after shots of our little piece of heaven in our own backyard.

Before:  you can see, from closest to farthest: onions,  basil, and some ill-fated peppers; then zucchini; then beans and corn; beyond that are the tomatoes, then cucumber; and in the last section is the watermelon.

You can see the basil getting stronger, and the zucchini and corn are really showing off!

And this was just the beginning!  That zucchini has since grown all the way to the onions!