New garden

We got our 2010 garden planted today. We have tomatoes (Big Boy and Patio), peppers (sweet banana and cherry), broccoli, squash, cucumbers, cantaloupe, and radishes. We didn't get a single squash last year, but we're trying again. The radishes are planted in between the tomatoes, so we'll see how that works. And there are three tomato plants in the blue bucket you see in the picture. It'll be hung up so they can grow upside down and won't have to be staked. The single cherry pepper plant is one I started from seed. The seeds were a couple of years old, and this was the only one that made it.

I have also started basil, cilantro and thyme, but they'll be transplanted to pots instead of into the garden.

At my insistence, we haven't used commercial fertilizer. Instead, we used the whole garden area as our compost pile all winter, faithfully burying fruit and vegetable peelings. It has really paid off. We now have some decent looking dirt instead of the red clay we dealt with last year. We're now using the "ridge" behind the house for the compost. If we can ever get the big pine tree removed, we intend to use that area for azaleas, gardenias and a fountain.