Green thumb

Last year Ken and I moved in to our new home at the end of June.  I was so excited to move in, decorate, and make it ours.  One of things I've always enjoyed was planting flowers and I actually wanted to try to plant a garden as well.  I had all these flower pots ready to go.  Then a few weeks later, I found my lump and the entire summer was ruined.   Well actually summer, fall and winter was ruined.  Now that I'm finally getting back to some sort of normalcy I'm happy to announce that I was able to plant my flowers and my garden this year.  And this is what I grew:

Strawberries 

 Basil, rosemary, tomatoes, green peppers, radishes

 tomato plant

 They're getting there

 Green peppers and radishes

 My radishes

 Tomato almost ready

 my green peppers

 And an unknown corn stalk.

Story behind my work:
Loved the strawberry plant.  I think I might have only gotten about 10 strawberries total.  Ate 2 and the other 8 were taken by some critter or bird.  All I know is right when the strawberry was ready to be pulled, it was gone when I went to pull it.  I finally made it to the store to get some netting but by then the strawberries were done.  I'll be ready next year.

I made the mistake of planting 2 tomato plants in one pot.  Although the pot is rather large I didn't realize how large tomato plants grew.  So as the summer has gone by I went from really large tomatoes to small ones.  But I did get approximately 50 tomatoes off those 2 plants and I still have about 20 left.  Verdict...home grown tomatoes are way tastier than store bought ones.  Well see how long this plant lasts but mental note for next year.  1 plant per pot of find a spot in the ground for it.  

Loved my radishes but will try to find a different place to put them.  They grow quick but all at the same time so I will try to stagger them as well so I get a bunch weekly instead of all at once.  I think I only got about 10 radishes and I kind of gave up on replanting them.  I grew mine from seeds.

I bought 2 green pepper plants.  1 plant produced 3 green peppers and the other only produced 1.  The plants have really grown in the last few weeks and new buds are appearing all over.  The green peppers are in a small square pot.  I'm thinking next year I'll have to try to plant it in the ground.

The rosemary and basil plants smell so nice but the basil plant has grown like a weed.  I've actually cut a few stems off and put them in water.  It's grown roots and I replanted the basil stem and gave it to a few of my friends.  From what I hear, their basil plants are growing well.  I've pruned my basil back once and will have to do it again.  At the end of summer I'm going to try to start a new small plant.  We love throwing basil in our homemade chicken noodle soup.

I tried to grow scallions and chives and neither worked.  But what didn't expect was the corn stalk I grew without planting.  Ken found it growing in our yard and planted it in my pot with my dill plant.  Well the dill didn't do very well but the corn stalk grew over 6 feet tall and there's actually 1 corn on it.  It won't be edible but it was really fun watching the corn stalk grow.  In fact I enjoyed watching all of my garden grow.   It was good therapy for me and although I have no desire to rush this year, I am looking forward to growing a new crop next year.