Gardening

In August we started growing plants from seeds. We have had fun watching them grow. A couple weeks ago Steve built us this stand so we could hang our plants topsy turvy style. As you can see in the above picture it is going pretty well. We have 2 types of tomatoes hanging and 2 types of cucumbers. We still have more tomatoes to hang. I have to scrub out the buckets first.

I know, you are all probably thinking we are crazy for starting our garden now. But in Florida you plant you garden in the fall and winter months or else it will get destroyed during hurricane season. Not to mention its too hot here to grow tomatoes during the summer. The shrivel and die.

This is our yellow squash plant. It is growing in a regular container. It seems to be fairing well, so I didn't want to move it and chance killing it. Its flowering already so I will take that is a good sign.

This is a container with more cucumbers in it. We didn't have enough buckets at first so we just left these ones in here. They are flowering now too so we will leave them alone now.

These are all the other tomato plants we have growing. I need to get them into containers tomorrow or in the ground with streaks to grow up so we don't lose them. The white container in the side view is a butterfly garden. Once they bloom they are suppose to attract butterflies. We planted them from seeds too.

This is our last set of plants. In the eggs are pepper plants that we planted straight out of the peppers. In the big container is a passion fruit vine that we started from seeds. We are hoping they take off. I love passion fruit juice. If it works, next year this time we should have tons of passion fruit. We also have a star fruit tree but I didn't take a picture of that one.