I haven’t posted about my garden in awhile, huh?! I guess it’s about time! 🙂

Before you look at the pictures, you have to remember that I’m only home on weekends, which means that’s the only time I can love and care for my plants. So compared to many other gardeners, I’m still very behind! With that being said, are you ready for the garden tour? (My mom and sister get to go through it live every weekend 😉 )

First, you’ll see the adorable blueberries! I have a couple bunches growing, but the plant is still very young. This is my first year for blueberries!

And to the right (of my house, not the post), you’ll see some of my blackberries! Look at all the blooms 🙂 I can’t wait to pick and can them this July (and maybe August).

And look what’s growing under that bush! A Lucy cat! 😉 She’ll lay out there all day long…

If you squint super hard, you’ll see some of my lettuce growing. I think there’s two different kinds. I’ve never liked the taste of garden-grown lettuce, but I’m giving it a try again.

And here you’ll see some Cheddar Cauliflower plants. I’m really not found of the name, but Michael made me buy them. Cheddar is one of the foods I disgust (except when I occasionally crave Goldfish and Cheezits). But orange cauliflower… we’ll see. The cauliflower is also surrounded by some onion plants.

And do you know what this is ^^? Radish! Of course. They are super simple to grow… which is why I always grow them 😉 In case everything else fails, I know those hearty radishes will grow.

And here are some the tomatoes (and a pepper plant)! Like I said, I’m behind on gardening so the tomatoes are still small. Some have flowers though!

And last, but not least…. we have my potatoes! They are my favorite. I have 4 bins full of them 🙂 I’m not one to rush my summer along (obviously!), but I’m anxious to see the yield at the end of the season. We’ll end the tour here because this post is quite lengthy! I do have some other plants, like broccoli, cucumbers (pickles!), squash, and zucchini. You’ll see them in a future post, promise!

As I mentioned, today was a very busy day! We didn’t really do any Easter festivities (though mom made me a very lovely Easter basket) but I whipped up around 30 dryer balls (whew!) which should make their debut on my Facebook page in the next few weeks. And I also spent a bunch of time outside weeding and trying to get my garden (if you could call it that) into some kind of shape! Hopefully by next weekend I’ll have some new dirt, some plants and MAYBE (please!) a FENCE. That’s what I asked for for my birthday, after all! If you remember from last summer, the deer have a huge crush on my garden. They seem to get in and destroy it no matter what I do, but I asked for a big, strong, fence and I’m hoping that’ll do the trick! 😉

Blackberries grow very well in my yard so I wanted to make sure those plants were in good shape before they started growing too big to handle! The picture above is the “after” picture. I totally forgot to take one before I started ripping away weeds, roots, and dead branches! My mom’s flower bushes do get in my way, but they were there first. My dad likes to TEAR my blackberry plants out every year because they take over the side of the house, but they grow back every time, so obviously they want to be there!  I was proud of my accomplishments and I have the thorn cuts all up my arms to prove my work too!

And the picture above is my garden! Isn’t she beautiful? 😉 In my eyes she really looks like this. Hah. One day! Looks like crap, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, the trash cans are for my potatoes and the blue sheet is to haul branches, I’m not really a junk collector (well…). I’m not sure if you can tell from the picture, but the back and sides of the garden are coated in dead branches from attacking weeds. I took out a lot of them, found my old chicken wire fence (which didn’t hold deer back!), a worm-snake, a GIANT spider, and a fox den behind the garden. I’m hoping someone will till it up for me this week, add some beautiful dirt, and did I mention a FENCE? I’ll share pictures next weekend…hopefully.

And here’s a cookie for all my work! Doesn’t it look like a chocolate cookie with peanut butter chips? It’s actually my potatoes inside their trashcan. I’ve grown potatoes many times before (I actually found a potato plant growing in my compost today!) but never had time for it last year, which is why you never saw pictures. I took a few potatoes (ya know, the ones with those creepy eyes that they get when you totally forget them and leave them in the basement for a few months? Yeah, get those out.) cut them in half-ish and threw them ontop of dirt. Then I covered them over. You really only need a few potatoes because they TAKE OFF! I just had a bunch and I cut mine in half so that’s why there looks like a lot in there. At the end of summer, when the leaves turn brown, you get to dump your trashcan over and then BAM -potato explosion! You’ll have to continue adding dirt to your trashcans as your plants grow bigger and make sure to water them well (cutting holes in the bottom of the can helps for drainage).

So there you go! My first “gardening” post of the season. I’m always behind getting the garden together. It’s just too much for me to handle when I’m only home on weekends, but I try! You know it’s a good day when you see dirt wash off your feet when you shower 😉 I’ll continue to update every so often, so keep checking back! Feel free to share your gardening adventures on here or on the Facebook page.