gardening.

Wes and I love our cute little apartment. its cheap, requires little to no maintenance, and is mostly quiet. of course there are things about living in an apartment that kinda suck. like having to pay for laundry, not being able paint all the walls, or permanently hang things, etc. but! we live on the first floor and have a patio that faces south, which lets plenty of sun in the apartment and just happens to be perfect for a small garden. a garden in the ground in our backyard of a house would be awesome! one day...

anyways, last year Wes and I planted a potted garden with herbs, jalapenos, tomatoes, and some flowers. we had more jalapenos then we could use. our flowers died, not sure if we watered them enough. and our tomato plant got infested with the gross tomato hornworm. I told Wes we weren't doing tomatoes again, I was so grossed out. I'd post a picture, but I don't want that on my blog. just google it.


this past weekend we shopped around and decided on our plants and how we were doing our garden. we bought two good size barrels, one for tomatoes and the other for herbs. I know I said no tomatoes, but we use them so often and I do love them! we used the same pot as last year for the jalapenos since it did so well. I used hanging baskets and some pots for my flowers. everything is planted and we are excited to see how things turn out this year! maybe we will even win the apartment patio contest, if they do it again. last year we got third place with a $25 gift card. so that was nice.

I love spring. the sunshine. and even the rain! I hope I have a "green thumb" this year! our plants look so pretty, I want them to grow big and survive the season! yay!