Today mom and I planted our garden. Earlier this spring we ordered five EarthBoxes in the hopes of a successful garden. Not that we haven’t been successful in the past, but our plastic pots disintigrated at the end of last year, so we needed to buy new ones anyway. We thought we’d give these a shot. But before I get into that, here’s a brief tour of our back yard:

Our wild roses are just about ready to bloom again:

So are the Irises (which is exciting because they didn’t even come up last year):

Pretty, pretty flowers:

This yellow bush is looking better than it has in years:

These white flowers have spread like wildfire:

And finally, here’s a little lizard sunning himself:

So, we headed to Home Depot first thing in the morning and picked up the five bags of potting soil, two bags of fertilizer and the veggie plants we decided to grow this year: tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers, eggplant and bell peppers.

The whole planting process took us about 4 hours; there were several steps to getting these boxes planted and it was a lot of work. Hopefully it’ll pay off with some great produce! I won’t bore you with the step-by-step process (and if you’re interested you can visit the website) and quite frankly, I’m beat! The sun came out this afternoon, and it got really hot. Summer’s on its way!

Gah! I’m rambling. I’ll shut up now. Here’s our finished planted garden:

Cheers!