here's hoping our thumbs are green.

last weekend we built and planted a vegetable garden.  i have been wanting to do this for a long time and we finally made it happen this year.  we built a raised bed which literally took all of 30 minutes to do.  it took three times as long to find the wood we needed at the store.  :)  we had to have untreated lumber and according to my husband it had to be cedar.  lucky for us there is a mccoy's not too far from our house...the major home improvement stores don't carry cedar posts which are what we needed.  so after a couple hours driving from store to store and some time at the nursery picking out our plants, we are in business!

it's been just over a week since we planted everything (tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, jalapenos, cayenne pepper, belpepper, strawberries, onions and some herbs) and it looks good.  the plants are all getting taller and stronger.  we go outside to water them and look at them everyday.  we have several new tomatoes already and i can't wait until they are ready to eat!  now i just need to be patient. :)