Looks Like I Fell a Bit Behind!

Hey all!

Well, call me a slacker. I haven't been here to update my blog in a while, so I'll try to get caught up in this post.

Some of the seeds I planted didn't sprout...namely the carrots and cucumbers. I'm pretty disappointed about the carrots. I was looking forward to them. Here are some pics of my garden a few weeks ago.

Things were going pretty well for my other plants. My tomatoes were starting to grow fruit, I got a couple of squash and my beans went crazy! I harvested a whole bunch of those.

I haven't cooked them yet, but I think I'll just steam them and eat them as a side. I gave some to my dad and step mom and she did cook them and said they were great! I'm excited to give some a try.

The last couple of nights have been really, really cold here, so earlier this week we had to get the gardens ready for the freeze by harvesting what we could. I got some more beans, but my tomatoes weren't very large yet. I pulled up my cilantro and planted it in a pot at home. I did the same with my pepper plants to save them from the cold. I didn't try to move my tomatoes because I was told they wouldn't make it.

On Thursday, I went to check my little plot and found that my tomatoes, beans, squash, and cauliflower were in bad shape.

I'm pretty sad about it. I don't know if they can recover or not. I'm guessing not. This is my first real garden, and I'm a bit surprised at how attached I've gotten. It was very hard to leave them there knowing how cold it was going to get.

Fortunately not all was lost. My cabbage and broccoli survived the cold.

Hopefully I will get a little something from them before it's all over. The semester is about to come to a close, so my little garden will be no more. I've learned that gardening is both easier and harder than I thought it would be. It's easier in some ways in that my plants grew pretty well even with minimum care, but pulling weeds by hand required a lot more time than I'd anticipated! I'm definitely going to start a garden at home after this experience. I'll be back to update when all is said and done.