You gotta start somewhere

As the end of summer draws near, I would have to say that out gardening experiment wasn't a huge success. Honestly, I think our biggest problem was that we just had a planter, and not a garden on the ground. The only soil we could find at Home Depot was technically top soil and was meant to be used with regular soil, but we didn't have that option so we hoped for the best.

It seems that everything we planted took a long time to grow and was a little stunted. Our herbs, our parsley and basil, is miniature and is just now big enough to pick and use. The peas we had were producing, but there weren't many of them, and then they got super scourched during the heat spell we had in July. After our week away out west they were pretty much goners. Our squash sprouted leaves and some flowers, but then they scourched away as well. Our cucumbers also had some leaves and flowers, but didn't seem to do much but turn yellow in the sun.

Amazingly, just when we had given up on the garden for the season and said we would just let it die off, we had a couple of days of rain and voila!, we had some miniature cucumbers! So now we're nurturing a few cucumbers and some herbs. We picked our first cucumbers yesterday and made a cucumber and tomato salad with some tomatoes with my parent's garden and some fresh basil and it was soooo good.







We can't wait until we have a real backyard to call our own and some real dedicated gardening space.

But I suppose we had to start somewhere.