Today after working for a few hours we went to Bob and Daisy's to get started on the garden.  I'm usually pretty excited about the potential of a garden in January with the arrival of seed catalogs and then pretty much get tired of the whole thing by the begining of June when the real work begins.

This year I never really got excited, until today. 

Now we are not gardeners in our house by nature.  I like to think that I live out in the country, but our lives are far from rural.  I tend to be a gardener out of cheapness, or frugality if you prefer.  Plus, I have an expert in Bob, and a free garden space that I don't have to attempt to keep up on my own.

This year, Bob gave me this whole plot... he has a couple of larger areas that he tends to.  He also bought alot of the seed and some of the plants.  He then shows me how to plant it after he spent the day tilling it.

So... today we planted 16 tomato plants, I like Roma, but also put out some Better Boy and Early Girls...  I have room for 6 more that I'll add later this week.

I planted a variety of pepper plants for a total of 25 plants including cayenne, bells, jalapenos, and sweet bananas.

I planted 2 of the 65 foot rows with half runner green beans.

I'm going to use the last empty row for cucumbers and started some by seed  today at my house.  That will be alot of cucumbers, but Mr. B really loves cucumbers.

I already have 1/3 row of carrots, 1/3 row of radishes with the remainder of this row going to be zucchini and yellow squash.

My row of potatoes is also doing well....

BUT... as much as all of the outdoor things are useful... I also wanted to add some beauty and function to my kitchen... I bought some colorful pots and planted some herbs that do well in semi-sun.  I'm not sure how much culinary use I'll get from dead Nettles, but the chives and lemon balm should hopefully prove useful....