Our Little Garden

   Did you know that if you ask nicely you can get away with an awful lot? Also it helps if you pay your rent on time and bake treats to take the ladies in your apartment office. Plus have an obnoxiously adorable name makes you memorable and they think of you as "that sweet couple that just got married."

  I digress. Back in the spring before we became Mr. and Mrs. T (and started pitying fools together), Phillip decided he'd like to start a gardening project. We set a budget of $50 for plants and various materials we would need and set off the the rental office to ask for permission. Since I'd be moving into his apartment after we got married we asked to put by his building. We explained a layout of what we wanted to do and they called us on Monday with the go ahead.

 So off we trekked to Lowe's, we really knew nothing about when to plant stuff. We just assumed "if it's for sale it must be time to plant it!" This is actually not true. I suppose it's like "Hey it's September, Wal-Mart has Christmas trees for sale, we should put one up!" We had 2 frosts after planting our little patch but they somehow survived.

So cute!

We decided to plant tomatoes, bell peppers, strawberries, basil, and mint. Everything has flourished except for the strawberries, our basil even started dropping seeds and making new plants. I'm not sure if this little adventure saved us any money but we haven't bought tomatoes or peppers all summer! We've also had plenty to share with friends.  Next year we probably won't plant so much, and will definitely put our tomato plants in cages because they got a little unruly.

This is what happens when your plants become teenagers, partying it up in the garden. For shame. 

 We have a few green tomatoes left but after they either burn or turn I think I'm going to clear them out and consider them finished. They're so ugly!!

  Once we get a house we're hoping to do a bigger garden