Mary, Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow??

I had a strange idea this year and wanted to plant a garden, don't ask me why, I just thought it would be super cool to say "yeah, I am a Gardner". Doesn't it make you sound like the coolest person ever.....

I remember being put to work as a kid in the garden that my parents always grew. I remember how I was so terrified of all the bugs and spiders that were in the plants that I had to pick. It was so scary and I would cry and freak out and my parents would force me to go and pick the veggies anyway, come on where is the sympathy mom and dad?? Well.... I decided to put my kids through the same torture so I planted a garden even though it is much smaller then the gardens my parents had, so it won't be the same type of torture, I will have to come up with something else.

I really had no idea how well this garden was going to grow but it is doing GREAT and I haven't killed anything yet, so I am very pleased. While my mom was here we used her expertise and she helped me design my garden and we put Nick to work and he built my raised beds and my mom and I did the rest. If my mom wasn't here I would have been clueless on what to do. Anyway, I went out to water my garden this morning and I saw my first vegetable. Who would have thought that seeing a little green tomato would have made my day today!! Hopefully in another month or so I should start seeing some produce!

Nick and Davis building my beds....

Once everything was planted....4 weeks ago

Amazing after 4 weeks.....this is what I planted this year.

In this bed all of my hill plants watermelon, cucumbers, zucchini and squash

In this bed my row plants butter beans, green beans and carrots. And my already plants strawberries and tomato/cherry tomatoes.

Here is my little green tomato...isn't it cute?