Behold!

Above: cucumber, canteloupe, zucchini, and pumpkin
Below: morning glory, basil, tomato, nasturtium, sunflower, spanish flag, fennel
Yes, I am back from the underworld that is this flu! Thanks for your prayers...
And proud to show the first seedlings of part of our edible yard project. Jill is partnering with me on this, which means Chad is too--so hopefully she will share pictures of her seeds at some point too (right?). Last week we got together and planned what we are hoping is a decent vegetable garden.
Our Garden Plan

The menu:
sweet corn
tomatoes
lettuce
spinach
bell peppers
beans
peas
herbs (basil, cilantro, parsley, mint, thyme, rosemary--some of these are still alive from last year's planting!)
watermelon
pumkins (the kind for pies)
squash
carrots
beets
cucumbers

Flowers:
morning glories
spanish flags
nasturtium
moonflowers
zinna
cosmos
sunflowers

Below: Heidi's Garden Plan
We are doing the indoor seed-planting part now. That way if everything dies we can still go out, buy a few tomato plants, and consider ourselves gardeners. At the rate the tomatoes and peppers are germinating, I think that will be likely. But I'm learning--I'm going to keep trying even though we live in a desert and as I write I can see the dead skeleton of a mum I got last fall reminding me that this is not my forte.

This is what has sprouted so far:
-morning glories
-nasturtiums
-sunflowers
-pumpkins
-zucchini
-basil
-fennel
-canteloupe
-one or two tomatoes

I'm really enjoying making all these lists...we have been talking about doing this since we moved into this house but waited a year to see what went down with the plants we already have. Because we want to get rid of a lot of them. So if you live nearby and are looking to adopt some giant bushes that look like lilacs but don't bloom and have a root system on steroids you know who to call.

Most of the flowers we chose are climbers since we have a lot of ugly cinder block to cover up.

Stay tuned...