Grow Veggies Grow!!

Well it has been just over 3 years since my last post! Crazy! So much has happened, but I'll skip it for now. I was working in my garden and thought how nice it would be to have a garden blog. Then I remembered I already had a blog, and here I am.

I spent a good portion of Sunday clearing out weeds and prepping the strip of dirt down the side of my house to be a butterfly garden. During the process I found several tiny little hostas growing under the weeds! I dug them up and moved them to the back of the house where I felt they would be happier. I just checked on them when I got home from work today and it is incredible how much bigger and better they look after only a few days! The leaves look happy as they stretch out to meet the morning sun and then relax in the afternoon shade. I'm glad I found them. :) The butterfly garden... I don't know if anything I planted will actually grow there, but the invasive ground cover (bishops' weed? Sheppard's weed? I don't know. Somebody's weed.) will come back for the rest of my life. I decimated the plants and yanked up the roots and turned the soil and scowled at them a lot... but once it is in the ground, it is there to stay. A few days after tearing up the whole plot there are already plants growing back, some of them several inches tall. This will be an uphill battle... Honestly I don't care if it ever goes away, as long as my garden grows along with it.

I am also growing veggies. They are inside right now... I got a deal on a portable greenhouse but it has fallen over twice so I'm afraid to put the plants in! But I check on them every morning and once or twice a night. Oh how it fascinates and thrills me that in a matter of house a once bare cup of soil can have a gorgeous green leaf poking up out of it. :)

I still have several kinds of flowers to plant when I get some time, but here's what I have sprouting on my craft table as of this evening.

4 of 6 Green Peppers (from new seed packet)
0 of 2 Green Peppers (from seeds from last year's crop)
2 of 4 Red Peppers
1 of 2 Snap Peas
0 of 2 Green Beans
1 of 2 Onions
2 of 2 Tomatoes
3 of 9 Dianthus (flowers)
1 of 6 Sensitive Plants (planted for funsies)

I shall try to update on the progress of my gardens: front, back, butterfly, and veggie. I do so love talking about my gardens. It is incredible that I get so much pride and joy from gardening. All I do is take a seed, put it in dirt, and water it. God does the rest... and I get to say I made it. :)

Off to make dinner. Which in some weeks time, God willing, shall include some of my very own garden vegetables!