We really had no idea what we were doing. Dave knew a little bit, I knew NOTHING. I have never been a flower/plant person, and know nothing about any of it.
We could have (and should have) done some research, looked some stuff up online, and read up on at least some basics. But that's not how we operate.
We headed to Walmart, picked out some tomato plants, pepper plants, cilantro, and some various seeds...came home and just started sticking stuff in the dirt! We know for a fact that we did not plant things properly...but we learned this AFTER the fact!
So here's what it looked like right after planting it in mid-June.
And here it is over a month later, towards the end of July.
And here it is over a month later, towards the end of July. Our tomato plants have gone CRAZY!
We didn't know having a garden could be so much fun. We feel like little kids saying "let's go look at our garden" every evening. We planted our tomatoes later than most, we've just started picking them the last 2 weeks or so.
My orginal goal was to plant everything that I used in my salsa recipe...but that didn't pan out. The cilantro died and the green onions didn't turn out. But we do have jalapenos!
And green peppers too! (I don't use those in salsa though)
These are Taylor's favorite! Is it odd that our child LOVES tomatoes? I mean, she will eat and eat and eat them if allowed. When the tomatoes on the plants were green, she didn't really know what they were, so they weren't that interesting to her. But as soon as they turned red, she knew EXACTLY what they were! 
Oh, it's so tempting to pick those little buggers....she stares them down and just gives us that "eye" when we tell her "no, no".
Her temptation has gotten the best of her several times. She has picked several when we are not looking and eats them right on the spot! In fact, one day I found her hiding in the garden, right smack in the middle of 4 tomato plants. When I got to her, I found a golf ball sized green tomato lying on the ground beside her with a bite taken out. I could barely control my laughter as I tried to tell her "no, no" and explain that she cannot go in the garden.
Does anyone have a recipe I can use to can salsa? I'll take a spaghetti sauce recipe if you have a good one too!
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check on a previous blog of the smiths (you'll have to go back quite a ways)she posted one that looked really good. i was going to use it this summer, except the fact that our garden got drowned out. hopefully with our raised garden, next year we'll be able to make some! Your garden looks good!
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