This is the best photo documentary of my flowerbed being transformed, ever.
To begin we have the tools of the trade. I started out buying a bunch of stuff last week, but after going to the post office yesterday I walked down to this other garden center, and they had a bazillion herbs and veggies. Plants are like crack to me. I'm obsessed with buying them. So I might have overdone it given the plot size I had to work with. It wouldn't surprise me if I go back and get even more herbs now.
My special tomato plant. He was originally going to be in that container on the porch, but once I got the OK to use the flower bed by my landlord, he got the shaft into the garden. The small one beside him is a Golden Boy (so yellow tomatoes)
My original tray: Basil, Apple Mint, Kentucky Colonel Mint, Rosemary, Celosia, Argertum (the blue flowers), Bloodleaf (red leaves)
My new tray: Dill, Marjorum, Oregano, Catnip, White Spearmint, brussel sprouts, summer squash, cauliflower, more tomatoes (Roma), begonias, and Salvia.
So here is the plot in the back yard, not so big as you can see, and overgrown with weeds.
So I weeded it! What hard work!
When I was done, it didn't look like I wanted it to... However, all of the veggie plants needed tons of space. I didn't have tons of space, so everything is spaced as far apart as possible, but still way too close. I think it'll be fine. But right now, it just looks sparse. I didn't know what to do with the flowers since they had to be an after thought and use minimal space, so I just made a row around the edge of the garden bed - doing one of each and repeating the pattern.
I couldn't even fit the herbs into the garden, so I had to place them into containers!!
And lastly, this is my new BFF.
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