Hope

Perennials establish themselves from seed the first year but do not usually flower until the following year.
~Source

Why didn't any of you tell me this? Didn't I tell you I know nothing of gardening? And why didn't it say this right on the package of seeds?

I'm not exactly encouraged, but I do again have a little hope that perhaps a little something will come of all those seeds I planted this year. Maybe.

Plants

It's been so long since I've posted anything I'm having a hard time deciding what to share.

I guess I'll show you my cucumbers from my garden. Haha, it's so funny that I keep blogging about this.

Here they are!

And here is a little watermelon plant that I planted too late. I'm hopeful that a watermelon will start to grow before it gets to cold, but I've been advised that it will get too cold for a watermelon plant before I have a normal sized watermelon. I guess it is September already.

Yesterday at the Arboretum I saw these pomegranate plants. I wish I could grow yummy pomegranates but my dad said I would have to move somewhere like Arizona for the right climate, so there goes that idea.

Look at these pretty flowers from the US National Arboretum.

And these darling sisters with a rock penjing.

And these wackos blocking the bonsai.

My First Harvest - Ever!

After writing that last post I decided I wanted to eat some of my beans! So I went out and picked some and then cooked 'um up! Yummy!

I Spy Vegetables!

Guess what I found in my garden yesterday! Beans!

I’ve been out of town a lot lately. I’ve been checking on my plants, but mostly just to make sure they’re not drying out. Then yesterday I went out to take a look and found beans!

Here are the flowering bean plants and some of the vegetables themselves. Almost ready to eat!

These are some flowers from the cucumber plants, no signs of cucumbers yet.

A couple weeks ago I finally planted some watermelon seeds. Hopefully I didn’t wait too long. And hopefully they’re getting enough sun. Here’s what’s come of them, so far. Do they look healthy to you? I’m not sure they’re going to work, but I didn’t have a sunnier place to put them.

I don’t dare to post a picture of the flowers I planted. Nothing’s bloomed yet. As far as I know they’re actually 100% weeds. Seriously, I don’t know what’s flowers and what’s weeds. How can you tell?

5 Days Later

I finally planted those seeds on Saturday. And look at these pictures I took last night!

If I can keep them healthy I'm going to have a good amount of string beans and cucumbers! Yummy! I didn't realize vegetable plants grew so fast.

And here's how the flowers are coming, they're just starting to peek out of the dirt.

I've never done this before and I wasn't sure anything would grow at all. If real edible vegetables grow and beautiful flowers bloom, this will be very exciting!

Rain, Rain, Go Away

I’ve been excited about planting some seeds out in my backyard. A few vegetables, some flowers. But the weather has not placated me. I’ve been waiting for the rain to let up. I’m probably a little early on some things anyway [and a little late on others] but once I decided to do it, I just wanted to do it! The trees that crowd my backyard aren’t going to make it easy for them to get sun. [My tiny backyard has 4 trees, not to mention the ones that come over the fence.] This may not work, we’ll find out!

This is my first attempt at this, all gardening advice is welcome!