A garden transformation!

Before & After

3 months later



I have been waiting to blog about my garden or our garden as it is Carson's as much as it is mine. He is out there all the time watering and picking away. Just tonight as we were outside he said "Mom, I love this garden, I love watching everything grow from just a tiny seed." We are already planning our next years garden and the things we are going to do different. I love to see the progression of our ginormous sunflower that is quickly changing the landscape of our garden. It kinda got there on accident. It goes way back to March when we starting the seeds indoors. Carson stuck a bunch of different seeds in a half-cut milk carton. We planted about 3-4 zinnia seeds close to each other and a couple different kind of sunflowers mixed in with a cantaloupe and a cucumber. Well, days turned into weeks and I kinda forgot what we planted. I just figured that I would be able to tell them apart by the seedlings. So needless to say I planted what I thought was a zinnia. But it didn't take long and one of my zinnias started passing up all its fellow mates. i thought is was just an agressive zinnia! But one day I noticed the stem getting fatter and fatter, then it hit me. This plant was no zinnia, this was a mammoth russian sunflower that reaches a height of 8-12 feet! Nice one Sher! As the days passed and I watched that sunflower grow knowing that it was going to get huge I thought about pulling it. But I couldn't make myself do it. My curious mind wanted to know just how big could this thing get. So I decided to plant the same seed in just the normal dirt next to the house and compare. Yes, those sunflowers are big too but nothing compared to the one in my box. So I truly believe that it's my magical soil! It has to be! This garden has made our first summer in this house so much fun. Thanks to Marne for showing me SFG. I am so glad that I decided to do it. Its been awesome and I'm sure I will be an addict for awhile. this picture was taken on the 4th of July 6 weeks after we planted in May!
July 23

Wow! This garden is really taking off. Carson is showcasing our first tomatoe. The first of many to come!The base of the stem is huge.Carson can't even put his hand around it and now I can't either! If I had to pick my favorite plant I would have to say it's my tomatoes.They are growing like crazy. The cherry tomatoe plant is out of control. Check out this pictures!

For a current picture stay tuned for my next blog. Im going to snap a shot from the same angle as my first picture and post in a few days. Stay tuned.....

This is one cherry tomatoe plant. I never thought that it

would get this big. I did prune it alot when it was first growing and have gotten TONS of little tomatoes off of it. Below it is two purple cabbage plants. the one is taking over.