Let's Garden!

This is the year we decided to expand our garden. Try some vegetables we hadn't grown before, just see how it would go. It might seem crazy to try this during the worst drought in years......but it's working for us! Look what we found in our garden this week!

Novices! That's what we are! We let this zucchini go too far before we picked it. That's because we didn't even realize we had any zucchini growing out there yet! Once we saw this one we did find about 8 or 9 that were the perfect size.

To start at the beginning, this was all Corey's idea. He said he wanted to try and grow something and I decided to help him. Since our yard is pretty small, and we don't have too much room for a garden, we decided 4ft x 4ft would be a good size to start. So in April, we decided to get started. We bought a raised bed kit at Home Depot, from the nicest Home Depot worker ever. He gave us a great deal because the box it came in was wet from rain.

Assembling the kit was super easy. 

We headed out to our favorite nursery for our plants, where we decided on zucchini, green beans, bell pepper and a jalapeno pepper. We also picked up a strawberry plant and a cherry tomato.   

Once planted, we set up a drip system to our little garden. Even though we can only use our sprinklers twice a week during this drought, we can water with a drip every day. We have also been catching the water that is wasted when you are waiting for the shower to warm up. This gives our garden a little extra water, which is great during our hot summer.

Two green bean plants, two zucchini plants, and two pepper plants, all in our little 4ft garden!

After one month we realized the zucchini was taking over! We decided to move the peppers into separate pots.

Tomatoes and strawberries doing great!

Look at this! This is our little garden after 2 months! Thriving! Even in a drought! This is where we found that giant zucchini.

Okay, actually we had a few giant zucchini. But we are learning! 

We are both amazed that this garden is doing so well. We will see what we find out there next, two months in and we have some promising looking bell peppers and jalapenos. We have plenty of tomatoes that just need to turn red. Our strawberry plants are doing great, but we suspect that Lola is enjoying those. We aren't sure what is going on with those green beans. We'll keep you posted!