Garden Time!

Spring is here! Or summer, if you go by the temperature outside. I'm super stoked about starting a vegetable garden. I've had a garden for the past 2 years, and it is SO much fun. It's also much easier than I ever thought. This week is the first time it's been warm out, and the last frost was about a week and half ago. Time to get digging! (Ironically the song "Dig-Dig-Dig Dig For Your Dinner" is playing on my Spotify playlist right now) 

Here's the garden right now...

And this is our dog trying to bite the first bee of the season. 

The stakes are halfway in, and I need to put the fence up before I start planting. Last year our dog, Doctor Who and our roommate's dog decided that my tomatoes and cucumbers made excellent chew toys. So this year, we will keep doggies out of the garden.

This is our first spring in the new house. We're renting, so I can't remove the rose bush. I don't want to tear up a grassy area either, which is why we chose here. I plan on growing tomatoes, cucumbers, spinach, kale, celery and green beans. I also want to attract some humming birds (because they pollinate but don't sting!) Apparently they like red flowers, so I thought about putting a pot where the hose is, to save my dirt space for food.


I tilled the ground a little this morning and put up the stakes. Then I decided I didn't want to plant my herbs outside. We have a teeny kitchen, so I can't really spare the counter space for an indoor herb garden. But when playing on Pinterest, I saw a lot of vertical herb gardens. So I got the idea to hang mine in the kitchen window. I headed to the thrift store in search of some mugs. Of course I got rid of all our extra mugs last weekend at the yard sale! I managed to find some great ones for less than 50c a piece!

I'm going for a vintage vibe in my kitchen, so I loved these colors! At first I only found one brown, one yellow, one blue and the two striped mugs. I noticed the employees were stocking (it was sale day), so I did some other shopping and came back. I was happy to see they stocked the mates of my mugs! The yellow ones are actually Boy Scout mugs, but I will turn them so you can't see the logos.

I found these while waiting for the cups to be restocked. Rubbermaid bowls for $.20 each (perfect size for my homemade yogurt) and an interesting book "memoirs of a camel" It cost more than $2, but looks like a fun read.

Honorable mentions for herb garden planters.

And remember how I wanted to plant some flowers in a pot?

And today was 25% off for members! I loaned my card to two people who forgot theirs, so good deed for the day also accomplished! The man in front of me saved about $30 by using my card. He bought several softballs, bats, gloves, kites for the neighborhood kids and some cute decorations to make it up to his wife. He spent $100 even, which is great considering that wouldn't buy gear for one kid in the normal store.

Looking forward so sharing pics of the garden throughout the season!

"I will but teach them to sing, and restore them to the owner"