How does my garden grow?

Here is a quick update on my gardening boxes. I was gone for 10 days to Utah, and what a blessing to come home to this. Yeah for modern irragation.

Chris asked about my planting mix, so with out having to go to the square foot gardening website here's a quick mix. You combine 1/3 compost, 1/3 perlite, and 1/3 spagnum peat moss. It contains all the nutrients that the plants need. I didn't use my own soil. I purchased large pkgs of the stuff from a nursery in Upland. They were pretty reasonable compared to Home Depot who only had small pkgs. of the last two.
Some of the tomatoes are ready, and I can't wait for the rest to be harvested.

Queen Of Soul

Here is a cop out of a blog. On Friday night we joined with four dear friends to attend an Aretha Franklin concert but I'm sending you a link to Lisa Blog because she has pictures and I don't. I also want to add that after the great concert I throughly enjoyed the ride home as we discussed gospel and temple related ideas. The evening was filled with great friends, great music and great spiritual interaction. http://lisakirtley.blogspot.com/

See how my garden grows!

I'm trying a new way to garden because I have abused my soil in the back yard retaining wall for toooo many years. I have planted tomatoes way to many times (32 years) in the same place, so I'm using different soil. Here is a link to the web site that helped me get everything set up. www.squarefootgardening.com (it didn't make it a link, so you'll just have to copy and paste this address, thanks for patients) I'm so excited to see the results. This pic right below is of the pansy in my front yard, you all know that I love Pansies. They are in full bloom so I had to add the pic for fun. Thanks for Mark for taking such great pictures. You just have to smile when you see pansies smiling at you.

Here I have planted my tomatoes in this planter with the new soil. I have two of them. You'll laugh at me but I just replaced one of them, I had planted an heirloom variety and when the tomato was ripe I didn't like the mealiness of it so I ripped out the plants and started with two new fresh ones, yellow pear. This is my better boy, with a purple pepper plant tucked in.

Here it is hard to see, but it's exciting. The starts of my beets, cucumbers, and my most anticipated, cantaloupe, sounds boring, but here is the quick story. Last year I bought this weird looking, odd cantaloupe (a different variety), but when we ate it--wow--it was so sweet and great texture. Soo, I saved the seeds and planted them this year, and 12 of them are growing. Too many for me, so if any ones interested, come and get a couple.

Let's see what happens. Love ya all, and happy gardening!!