What I have planted in my garden

There you go, that is the extent of my garden, as of this year anyway. It is about 18 x 5 and it is packed full. There are 5 roma tomato plants, 9 green pepper plants, 2 potato hills, red onions and borage around the tomatoes. Borage is supposed to make the tomatoes sweeter, or something like that, a companion planting kind of thing. I have my compost bin at the "top" of the garden. That is so that the nutrients leach down into the soil and then down the garden, it has a slight slope, so in theory, that should work. In the past I have planted tomatoes around the compost bin and used it to tie them up as needed. Those plants always did very well. I learned that from something that I had read about how well tomatoes like organic food. I don't know if I had said before, but I don't really have original ideas, I just copy what I read and see how it works for me.

I also have a couple of 1 x 2 areas, one that has carrots and one with beets. And of course there are pots of stuff as well. Cucumbers, and Japalenos in those. I still need a couple more bigger pots to transfer some things or just start something, cause I have some seeds. That is how it is with me, kind of like an addiction. I get a hankering and I HAVE to get a load of compost and dig up some part of the yard and start planting stuff.

One thing I haven't learned is patience. Seeds really do best for me if I just wait and plant them outside in the "real" dirt. Otherwise I end up wasting time and money trying to start seeds inside. I am not as good at that yet as I would like to be. I think my next project is to try and start some Columbine from seed - outside of course - HA!