My Little Potted Garden

NOTE: This post is not about quilting, or sewing, or any other activity that most people would consider a craft. But to me, gardening is a craft, and a skill and something I am proud to have accomplished this year!

Some day I will have a nice big yard, with a nice big garden that I can fence off and keep the dogs out of. But until then, my small potted garden will have to suffice.

I started more seeds than I knew what to do with inside this past spring. I tried my hand at grape tomatoes, basil, Thai basil, cilantro, chives, hot peppers, lavender, thyme and... (I don’t remember if there was anything else). Lots of things made it, but lots of them didn’t. The only seeds that I had which did nothing were the lavender. I think I may have gotten one small lavender to sprout, but it piddled away early on. And unfortunately when I transferred plants from the seed pots to their larger pots I lost quite a few things. Lesson learned: next year I will use a different seed starter kit, the one I used this year made it impossible to get the plants out of without damaging them.

But anyway, what did survive is nice and healthy and green! In fact, we had some of the fresh basil last night in our dinner! The hardiest plants, the ones that are flourishing now are my tomatoes, pepper plants, chives, basil and Thai basil. Everything else either died after transfer or never really got established to begin with.

Here are some photos of the plants. They aren’t very large, but boy are they healthy!

First set of flowers on a tomato plant!

Thai Basil, oh my! This is a really happy pot of Thai basil :-)

My basil is flourishing! A few of the leaves of this plant found their way into dinner last night, yum!

The pepper plants were a little shy when it came their turn to be photographed, but here is one flower bud just about to pop open!

And one last shot of one of the beautiful tiger lilies in the yard. My lilies have exploded this year, they are huge, and gorgeous!