Personal Vegetable Aisle!

I've been having a lot of fun recently growing seeds in those seed starting green houses and have finally gotten around to planting them in the beds! I've separated the plants by type (tomatoes/peppers in one bed) and vine like plants in the other.  We designated the taller bed for the vine-like items in the hopes that it will help contain them.

This past weekend was our 5 year anniversary!  My gift to Jeff was a set of golf clubs.  His gift to me...manual labor.  I was very pleased and immediately put him to work on installing a drip irrigation system for the beds.  I'm very happy with the results and so are the plants.  I can already see them smiling and growing bigger.

 

In a previous post I talked about the Topsy Turvy's we swiped when the neighbor abandoned his home.  Here's a little preview of their progress:

 

We have our first tomato growing...

 

And there are multiple peppers growing!

Can't wait for things to keep growing.  Will post more pictures as our personal vegetable aisle continues producing.

Would You Call that a Twin or a Full?

We finally did it!  We made vegetable beds. 

Two weekends ago, Jeff and I went to Home Depot and bought more lumber.  Yes...more lumber.  We did get to break in the new truck to haul it all home, but more lumber.

We planned the beds out that morning and decided on 2 - 4'x8' beds spaced 4' apart (for carts to get through).  The lumber is treated so they *should* last a few years without having to rebuild.  There is one bed that is 10" tall and the other is 20" to contain vine-like plants from spilling into the yard.

<Insert Jeff's pat on the back here>

The neighbor gave us a topsy-turvy which we hung on a shepherd's hook, however, when he left in the middle of the night without saying anything moved out, he left a topsy-turvy (strawberry variety) planted with pepper plants I gave him and another tomato one so I went over and adopted them.  They are so heavy the broken the shepherd's hooks we bought so we replace the cut 4x4 of the big bed with a 5 - 6' piece and hung them on it.  Much sturdier and we're already seeing plant growth!

I've also been busy starting summer seeds (cucumber, squash, watermelon, Lima beans, pumpkins).  The Lima beans grew so fast that they pushed the lid off of the seed starting "greenhouse" in 3 days!  I moved them so they're sitting outside in the shade growing happily.  Unfortunately, the only other thing that grew with it was the cucumbers.  I'll have to restart the squash and watermelon.  I think I'm giving up on the pumpkins.

Next step is to construct the trellis and plant!  I can't wait to see everything grow!  More pictures to come.