The winner of the CSN Stores $40 Gift Certificate Giveaway is Aimee, #28
Aimee said:
Nelsby, June 16, 2010 4:15 PM
I am publicly following your blog on Google Friend Connect (username Nelsby).
Thanks!
Aimee
Thank you all for participating and stay tuned for another great giveaway soon!
Since we've always been renters, I've never had the opportunity to plant a garden of my own and so have become quite adept at container planting. This summer is our first full summer as homeowners and while I started out prepared to plant in containers again, I wound up deciding to do a small garden in the backyard.
I have been working on clearing out some extremely overgrown forsythia (as you can see in the below photo) and doing so gave me the perfect spot to plant some veggies.
When I say small, I mean small! This is a 4'x4' frame, but I think I've managed to make good use of it!
We have a row of Portuguese Hot Peppers
Burpless Cucumbers
Three different tomatoes- an Early Girl
a Sun Gold Cherry 
and a Patio Tomato
and a row of Green Bell Peppers
And because I've heard rumor that planting different herbs too near each other will make them start to take on each others flavors, I decided to stick with containers for my two basils. 
My African Blue
and my Sweet Basil (still need to get one more plant for this pot)
This is all stuff we eat with regularity, so I figured best to start with what I know. if I am successful this summer, I think I'll double the size next year to include some lettuce, a few more tomatoes and maybe some melons of some sort...
I've also been working on a new flower bed. This entire bed (save for the two sunflowers I bought for $1 a piece) is made up of freebies given to me by my mom and mother in law. I've got Day Lilies, Iris, green and variegated Sedum, Coreopsis, Tiger Lilies, Lupine and Bee Balm.
I call it the scraggler garden because it's sort of just a mishmash of stuff all plopped together. But I am patient and in a few years it will fill in and look lush and lovely! (Now if I could only get my weeds grass to grow in!)
And finally I leave you with a photo of a pretty yellow flower growing in my window box. I have no clue what it is- I got an 8 pack at Home Depot for $1.88 and there were none with tags that had names, lol! They bloom in red, magenta, yellow and white. Anyone have any idea what it is?
And a final reminder! Today is the last day to enter my $40 CSN Stores gift certificate giveaway!
As frequent readers might recall, my oldest and bestest friend in the world lives on a lovely farm out in Portsmouth, RI. Sunday was her son's birthday and we spent the day out on the farm. 
Love this photo of Aidan
While the kids went berzerk in the ginormous bouncy house, 
I wandered off to take photos and do a little herb and flower shopping (of course!)
This is what came home with me:
a 6 pk of Portuguese Hot Peppers,
a 4 pk of Green Bell Peppers,
a Golden Cherry Tomato plant,
an Early Girl Tomato plant,
3 pots of African Blue Basil,
2 pots of Sweet Basil
and 2 Sonja Sunflowers.
Can you see that little cherry tomato?
Mmmm, Basil heaven!
Busy little bee!
Beautiful flowers everywhere
Spotted while walking by the truck graveyard
Walker and Aidan
Don't forget, there's still one more day to enter my $40 CSN Stores gift certificate giveaway!
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