Gardening Itch

I've been getting the itch to start our garden up again for Spring. We have one "Winter" garden going right now, but I just found these photos from our garden last Spring (links here and here) and I suddenly can't wait to plant tomatoes and herbs again!

While we have a couple of weekends yet until we ramp up the garden, I'm still getting excited...

Veggie Garden!!!

As some of you may already know, a few weeks ago we got our Mohawk House veggie garden going. C made 2 awesome raised planter beds with lumber we had lying around in the back yard and J and I wound up buying a bunch of plants at the Cuyamaca College Spring Garden Festival. Now, just a few weekends later we're cooking with our very own home grown veggies!

Planting list: 6 types of tomatoes (Early Girl, Cherry, Roma, Beefsteak, Yellow, and Celebrity (I think)), Sweet basil, purple/Asian basil, Cilantro, a lettuce medley, Bell Peppers (Yellow, Red, Orange), Anaheim chiles, strawberry, mint, garlic and onion chives.

Japanese cucumber, zucchini, and butternut squash seeds (from C's Mom) are also scattered in the beds.

We recently planted rosemary in the driveway planters, and some thyme in a pot. So we actually have an operating kitchen garden now - which is super exciting :) C's parents bought us some eco rock gravel for the walks in between and around the beds. Its looking really nice! Our next project back here will probably to plant vines up the side of the clothes lines (behind the beds in the first photo).