the growing continues

Another quick update on our first veggie garden.

After returning from our weekend in OKC we were fearful that some damage may have been done to the veggie garden due to lack of watering. Boy were we wrong. The veggie garden was doing better than ever with plants towering and tomatoes popping up everywhere. We even had to add in some support cages for the tomato plants because the weight of all the tomatoes was taking them down.

A quick look back at day 1:


And now at day 40 or so:


We are getting some absolutely beautiful veggies.

Peppers...we are growing peppers

Okay, so I must admit that when we planted all of our veggies sent from Burpee Home Gardens I had no idea what all we were planting. From what they had told me I thought we just had a variety of tomatoes and basil. Well, I was wrong.

As we were doing our daily survey of our veggie garden Chase spotted a beautiful green bell pepper, almost ready for harvesting! We are growing peppers! I was SO excited. How cool is that?



We have both already decided to drastically expand our garden in the near future. In the meantime take a look at our ever growing tomatoes and our new found peppers.

our first veggie garden

A couple weeks ago, before our sodding project, Chase and I built and planted our first veggie garden.  Its just a small beginner garden that we plan to expand on but its a good start.



We decided to do our gardening in a raised box bed made with our own bare hands. A couple untreatd 2x6x8 and a piece of untreated plywood with holes drilled in for drainage. Simple and effective.



We used the plants provided by Burpee Home Gardens and Paisley even helped me plant them.

Right now the veggie garden is made up of 4 different varieties of tomatoes and some basil. We can't wait to use our own home grown tomatoes!

its official

I am now an official 'Garden Blogger' for Burpee Home Gardens.  My very first blog was posted on their site today along with my bio and my Twitter introduction!!  How cool is that?

Here is my Burpee bio.

And my Burpee tweet.

Read my first post at Burpee's blog!

I can't believe it actually happened...I still feel like somehow its a scam and all the money just got transferred out of my account and to some exotic island somewhere.

My plants are here

My plants from Burpee Home Gardens arrived on my doorstep today.

They are so beautiful and green. I can't wait to plant them this weekend. We are still trying to figure out exactly where in the backyard to plant them so more details on that to come.

Getting excited about having tomatoes right in my own backyard!

A Unique Opportunity

Yesterday I got a very interesting email in my inbox. It was a representative from Burpee Home Gardens, a company that has been producing products for the home gardener since 1885.

Burpee Home Gardens is starting a new line of products as part of a campaign called I Can Grow designed to help the next generation of gardeners succeed with their vegetable and herb plants. They were searching for novice gardeners (me) to blog about their own gardening experiences. The people at Burpee had come across my blog and offered me the opportunity to guest blog on the Burpee Home Gardens website and talk about my experience in gardening. Wow! Seriously? I thought for sure it wasn't the real deal. Well it turns out it was!

Burpee Home Gardens is sending me some of their latest vegetable and herb plants along with a new book they developed to help Chase and I get our very own home garden started. How exciting!

I will be posting at http://www.burpeehomegardens.com/blog so go check it out! I will keep everyone here updated and be sure to link to my posts when they are published.

Also check out the Burpee Home Garden website, it has great tips and advice on home gardening.  A great resource.