Experimental gardening

Ever since I was a little girl I've watched my grandmothers and even my mom garden. They love it. I didn't! Weeding was a chore and picking berries a torture. Now I wonder what has changed? Is it the fact that I'm finally living in a house with a garden or are my nesting instincts taking over?

When we moved to this current rental property the first thing I noticed was the greenhouse. I knew immediately that I'd like to grow tomatoes, however, it was late August and realistically way too late for any sort of produce. As the new year came around so did a notion that we'd be moving back to my home country. So we didn't really think about prepping our garden and the greenhouse. When we decided to stay another year it was way past the time to propagate tomato plants. Luckily a nice lady in the village sold me some tomato, aubergine and pepper plants.

The first problem I encountered was the inhabitable soil in the greenhouse. It was completely dead, not a weed in sight. That didn't deter me of course. I dug the ground up... several times. We could have ordered some new soil for the greenhouse but that was a bit too expensive. So instead I decided to experiment.

At first I wanted to use tomato grow bags but a friend suggested digging holes in the dirt and filling them with new soil, like pots. I thought why not. I had plenty of plants to spare. So some of my plants went into the dirt in the greenhouse and a few of them are growing in bags and two are currently in my DIY hanging planters growing upside down. One of them is looking rather dead, but I haven't lost hope just yet.

I've rescued my sad looking windowsill thyme and hopefully it will flourish outside

O. loves to help water the plants

I guess my main objective is to find out if I can garden. I've never had much success but that doesn't mean that I'm nto having fun. I'm hoping that by the end of summer I will have lots of tomatoes to can and eat. Fresh, home grown produce is the best.