The Bad...

The bad….

Frankly, this section is less than successful. Essentially, this is the section where I outline what issues/problems I’m having.

As you recall, I started growing Basil. I’m not sure what happened to it, but I probably planted it too deep, or the weeds got to it. Either way, the Basil never came up. I found some bulbs while shopping at Lowe’s (there are times that living as close to it is a drawback). Anyway, I found some onion bulbs that were “guaranteed” to grow. So, I gave them a plant. We’ll see what happens.


So, stick with me a moment for geography’s sake. The first picture is looking toward the driveway. The flowers and such in the background are in the fore of the second picture. This was an area that was dedicated to the Morning Glory. They, however, had issues (see below) so I found some annuals to put there. Petunias and some other flower whose name I cannot recall. Behind that is a Cherry Tomato plant. That space wasn’t used for anything originally.

The next picture is where the carrots were planted. They didn’t come up. Again, not really sure why. However, while I was at Lowe’s (sensing a theme here?), I found a product that had carrot seeds in a paper wrapper and guaranteed growth. As with the Onions, we’ll see.

The fourth picture is standing in the yard looking toward the fence. Originally, Sunflowers were planted there. However, my fine feathered friends decided that I really didn’t want to grow Sunflowers. They actually dug up the seeds *grumble*. Well, I found some Roma Tomato plants on sale ($.99 each) and so we’ll see how they do.

The next picture is the Peppers. I know what you’re thinking, “but you had Peppers in the pots!” Yeah, well… They needed more space and the Onions weren’t growing here. So, I tilled up the soil and planted the Pepper plants, plus some other $.25 plants (yay for stumbling on sales!). I draw attention to the upper picture. That’ll come into play in later posts…

Finally, the Morning Glory. Not sure what happened here. They came up, looked good, and then started to wither. Or, rather, some of them started to wither. So, I plucked some of the withered ones. Since doing that, some have started to grow again. So, maybe they just needed thinning. I guess time will tell.