So the weekend of Mother’s Day, Cory and my family helped me get our garden ready for planting, and we also reshaped and planted the front flower beds. In the flower beds, I have some old bushes that were here when we moved in, some grasses (Mom, can you give more specifics?), coneflowers and/or black-eyed susans, and daisies, as well as some basket of gold and snow in summer (mostly dead… I blame Herschel…). In the garden, we’ve got tomatoes (several different varieties), peppers (a variety again), cantaloupe, watermelon, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, corn, and beans. I’m so excited! Anyway, here are the results (the pics are over a week old, though… the garden is growing so much now! I’ll post newer pics later, as I take them):

Notice the new shape in the front of the flower bed, and all the new plants! Only a couple have died… not bad considering they’re starts from my mom’s beds!

This is our garden area, right next to the house. I was worried about the shade initially, but it seems to get enough sun.

And this is a closer-up pic of the tomatoes and peppers… I’ve never grown peppers before, but I’m excited for them… now I’ll just have to figure out how to use all this produce!