A post before Vacation

I've been meaning to get this post up. An update on my container garden! It started a few months ago as seeds in my window sill at my apartment. Now I have little green tomatoes and little green peppers on HUGE plants!



Let me take you on a tour...all of these pictures were taken a week ago, so everything is bigger and fuller now!


My Zinnias! Aren't they gorgeous? They were my very first sprouts and they are many different colors and oh so pretty! I love these, and I'll have to plant them every year. I think they would be a cool garden boarder as well.

My tomatoes were also stared from seed in my window sill. I had strawberries sprout, then die because I was impatient and transplanted them too early. My chives and sweet peppers never sprouted.

So at the hardware store I picked up some sweet pepper plants and now I have little green peppers! (Large pot in the middle.) I'm waiting for them to get big and turn red. I love red peppers the best. To the sides, the round pots have carrots I started from seed when I moved here, and the rectangles have sweet peas. The peas are the one plant that seems to have died and probably won't come back. I think they got too much water, not enough soil, and I didn't move them down to the concrete in order to try to vine on the rails until it was too late. They blossomed, I have one pea pod, and now all the leaves are brown. :-( But peas grow quickly too, so I may try to replant. We've been able to eat a few small carrots already, along with the lettuce.



My dianthus that I picked up on a whim - love them, and want to plant more in the landscaping out front next year.

Now the strawberries in the large blue pot. I finally had to go buy a starter plant. I tried several times to start them from seed. And I just recently planted them in here. I was getting frustrated that it was bearing no fruit. But once I got it in its planter, it has now grown, blossomed, and I'm hoping for a few berries when I get home.
Finally, for some reason, herbs have been my biggest challenge. And I always thought herbs were supposed to be easy. The boys and I planted three different ones in this little metal box, and just one is sprouting. I think it's the basil, which besides the cilantro, is the one I really wanted to grow.

Things I can't get to even sprout? Onions and chives. Grr.