How does your garden grow?

One month ago (April 28th) we planted our garden. We usually try and do it mostly from seeds, but we were late getting started so we bought the plants. I had actually bought some tomato plants about 3 weeks before and still hadn't planted them, so they were looking pretty sad and I wasn't sure they would even make it.  We called them the miracle tomatoes because it would be a miracle if they survived.  While I was planting one of them the main stem broke in half--I planted it anyway, but was certain it wouldn't make it.

This is where the miracle tomatoes were planted--along the top right edge in the picture.  This garden box also doesn't get as much sun as the other one, so the tomatoes had not such a great start.  Also planted in this box are some cucumbers, watermelon plants, mint, basil, and a few peppers.

In our second box we planted cherry tomatoes and regular tomatoes, cucumbers, lots of peppers and some strawberries (they came back from last year--last year they were mostly eaten by rabbits so we were surprised to see them).

Our one month update

This is the box with the miracle tomatoes--all of which, miraculously, survived!  The cucumbers are amazing and already have several little ones growing.

This garden box is doing amazingly well.  We have already picked 3 cherry tomatoes.

 I am so excited to start getting peppers--like the little one in the center of this picture

I'm also excited for these to ripen...though now that I look at it I'm trying to decide if I need to prune some of them....