My Very First Garden

I have not ever in my 20 years of marriage had a garden of my own until this year! And I almost waited too late to get things in, but it's doing nicely. It's a small container garden and I have learned TONS about spacing and such with this garden. I placed it in a semi protected area. Living in West Tx the wind never stops and the heat gets INTENSE! But our house is "C" shaped and so I have a small courtyard in front of my kitchen window on the East side. It's been the PERFECT spot! I took two old tractor tires, and some small plastic bins, a trash can for the potatoes, some rich soil from a friend's farm, a watering system, and some decent looking plants and TA-DA.......

The pvc tubing you see holds up the bird netting I placed over the garden. It stands 5 ft high.

Tomatoes

Cantaloupe after I pruned the dickens out of it! and we wills till have melons out our ears if all the blooms make!

Zucchini

Basil

I also planted potatoes that didn't make, strawberries that needed more shade and died, the greenbeans got choked out by the cantaloupe, the yellow squash didn't stand a chance against the zucchini, my cilantro was overwhelmed by my basil, I do have jalapenos planted, mexibells (hot bell peppers) are producing, other bell peppers and cucumber are at least still alive, and one of my blackberry plants got uprooted by a nosy dog. But we have already enjoyed several small roma grape tomatoes, and the zucchini is starting to come in. This is the first one we got and it's 29.1 oz! That's an inkpen next to it.

I'm already starting to plan for a larger garden next year!