Gardening Progress: 5 Days

I decided I wanted to a. Grow my own vegetables over the summer and fall and b. Grow a bee-friendly garden.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES:

• Corn
• Carrots
• Watermelons
• Herbs (rosemary, sage, fennel, thyme basil, etc.)
• Lettuce

FLOWERS

• Cosmos
• Marigolds
• Morning glories
• Alyssum
• Violas
• Black-eyed Susan

So far we have germinated and planted ten corn plants, 20 or so lettuce and herb plants each, and ten watermelon plants.

We found a way to grow our corns. We were going to to transfer them (they're growing in biodegradable jiffy cups) into shopping bags (four plants per bag) and water them once the bags are in a wading pool. That should yield a considerate amount of corn.

We're germinating the watermelons in peat pots and letting them grow for a while before we move them into a little pit in the ground where a tree stump used to be. They should be ready by the fourth of July then.

We haven't planted any flowers yet, but we have a trellis for the morning glories to curl onto. We were going to plant black-eyed susans, violas, cosmos, alyssum, and morning glories in a flower bed in the back, and the marigolds and more Cosmos can go in the front flowerbed.