Our Garden :)

We live in an apartment in town, so we don't really have space for a garden.  Last year, we grew a few tomato plants and herbs outside of our window and became members of a CSA.  But this year we really wanted our very own garden :)  So we rented a plot at our community garden (only $35 for the year!).  We started work early in the spring prepping our beds and starting all sorts of vegetables, herbs and flowers from seed in our apartment under a grow light.  At the beginning of the year, we were out at our plot a few times a week.  I remember walking by all of the plots (there's about 40 total) early in the season just baffled that some people hadn't even touched their plot by early May!  And here we are a few months later praying for rain so that I don't have to go out this week.  It's not that I don't absolutely LOVE being in the garden - I truly find my zen there and "a quick trip to water" turns into several hours of basking in the sun and admiring all the beautiful plants we grew from seed... oh yea and a little weeding :) The problem is this cute little puppy named Juno :)

Building our raised beds

My pea trellis :)

Row cover -- this stuff WORKS!!

Our enemy!!!

Peas!

Can you blame us??

Our first little garden :

Since dogs aren't allowed at the garden, it's really been put on the back burner.  Since Juno's crated all day (except for a lunch break), the last thing we want to do when we get home from work is put back in the crate so we can go garden.  It really makes me anxious to have a house of our own with a garden out back, where I can be pulling weeds and throwing Juno a tennis ball all at the same time...

Kale

But even after literally a full month of not visiting the garden, I went out to find how amazing it was still doing all on its own.  I almost teared up when I walked out to our plot to find so many greens and peas and radishes and broccoli and flowers doing so well!  Here's a few photos of our plot this year.

Harvesting Radishes!

Lettuces!

Radishes

Broccoli

Radish

Sugar Snap Peas

Future Tomato!

Tomatoes

Happy Gardening :)