Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary...

 ....how does your garden grow?

One thing I was really excited about when we decided to move to Michigan was the chance to grow a garden.  At our last house, our yard was teeny tiny, mostly due to the river in our backyard.

We only lived here for a few weeks when we borrowed a tiller and put in a garden.  It's not huge and it's definitely far from perfect, but I love it.  At the time we started the garden, we were feeling totally overwhelmed by unpacking and being surrounded by everything new.  I remember thinking, as Brooks was wrestling with the big bucking bronco called a tiller, that when my garden started to put out produce, our life would be a little less stressful.  All the unpacking and craziness would be worth it and we would be moved into our new house.

 For the most part, that's true.  We still have a lot of work to do with moving in, but I remember it took MONTHS to move into our last house.  And that was without three small girls causing chaos.  It's a work in progress.

So here's our garden.  It's small (only 10 ft by 12 ft), but it's beautiful to me.  We planted 9 tomato plants, green peppers, red peppers, jalapeno peppers, cucumbers, kale, and one zucchini plant.  On my porch I have romaine lettuce and some herbs.

 The garden....see the HUGE plant in the lower right section?  That is ONE zucchini plant.  ONE!!  What in the world?!?  It's like a mutant!  I actually had to cut back some of the leaves because they were totally shading my peppers.

 

My first little zucchinis...just starting out!

 Kale...this is only 4 kale plants.  Also growing like crazy.

 

 

I love my little garden.  What's your favorite thing to grow?  I need ideas for next year!

I'm linking up today with Capri + 3 for Multiples Monday!  Go check it out!