Details of the New Garden

In the large bed, we planted hot peppers, lemon grass, long beans, cucumbers, zucchini, squash, lettuce, green onions, spinach, radishes, and carrots. I planted marigolds in the front of the bed, hoping to deter pests. So far, it has been doing really well. The cucumbers, lettuce and hot peppers are coming in nicely.

In the medium bed. The girls got 4 squares each to plant whatever they wanted. We took them to a local nursery and had them pick out flowers for 2 of their squares and then saved 2 squares for vegetables. Emily picked carrots and radishes and Jasmine picked sugar snap peas and carrots. I planted some cucumbers, green onions and watermelon. The cucumbers plants eventually died because they had been transplanted too many times. The green onions are surviving so far and the watermelon is doing really well.

As you can see, the smallest raised bed has not been built, yet. It's going to be a flower bed. I wanted something to attract butterflies and ladybugs. My girls love to pick flowers so this will be a good place for them to grow whatever flowers they want.


I just have to give special thanks to our friend Ben of 1st Green Lawn for donating most of the materials used for this project as well as his time and expertise. We could not have done it without his generosity. And to Jimmy for putting up with me all these years even through all my crazy ideas.