Several weeks ago, in the midst of doing our remodeling, I decided we needed a garden.
Our backyard is a disaster area. But I knew it was time to plant summer veggies. So while visiting my local home improvement store to pick up paint, I bought wood, soil, seeds and one tomato plant.
I asked someone at the store to cut it into four 2-foot pieces. I brought it home and nailed together a 2′x2′ box. I found a sunny part of the backyard and plopped it down.
My kids put in the soil and seeds (they picked out corn, onion and cucumber. My son loves corn and my daughter loves tomatoes!
About every other day we go to the backyard when we get home to see how our garden is doing.
It’s been a fun adventure. When the first shoots came up, I couldn’t believe we’d done it. So far, we have eight corn plants, one cucumber plant and three onion plants growing alongside our tomato plant. We don’t have anything to eat yet, but flowers have appeared in the last week. I think that’s a sign of coming vegetables. Being a neophyte farmer, I’ll just have to wait and see what happens. And really, that’s what this experiment is all about.
Now, if I can only keep everything alive in the pending heatwave!