Our baby garden!

I know I haven't posted in a while but watching seedlings grow is really boring.

Finally, Lucas and I have planted all the seedlings! We have 3 boxes of vegetables and herbs.

In the back are cucumbers and jalepenos. In the middle are tomatoes, basil, and cilantro. In front (out of view) are green beans, snap peas, rosemary, and some stragglers from the other boxes.

The basil smells *delicious*

So far the beans and peas are the only plants that need something to climb up.

and boy do those snap peas just love climbing. If you look closely there you will see....

Beans! Look at all the beans. Lucas and I have already eaten the big ones. Look at how many pods are growing.

They are so good. We love eating something that we grew on our own deck!

We are also growing flowers. Penny has to actively restrain herself from digging in the planters and it is not easy!

These are figaros. They love blooming.

These are from a mix of flowers called "Penny Citrus Mix". We figured, how could we not plant them for our girl?

The marigolds are Lucas' favorite.

And finally...

Two gratuitous pictures of our girl in her brand new collar that mommy made just for her!

welcome to the start of our urban gardening experiment. this summer lucas and i (freshly married and in possession of alot of excess energy) are going to see what kinds of vegetables and flowers we can grow on our terrace.

penny loves our terrace!

we live on the 4th floor of a 14 story building in downtown rochester, ny that was recently converted to residential lofts. we are one of two units in the building with a big terrace outside of our apartment (that we reach by climbing out windows) and plan to take advantage of it!


Yesterday we started seedlings in planters indoors since its still pretty cold outside at night.

today we bought the lumber and constructed 5 planter boxes that are 4' x 2'. we plan to use what we learned from www.squarefootgardening.com to grow vegetables, herbs, and flowers!