Hello, friends! The gardening Season for 12023 has begun, woohoo! :)
If you think it's a bit late, it's not for my region - the rule for Colorado is you don't start outside until after Mother's Day, which was a couple of weeks ago. We've had LOTS of rain (for Denver) since then, so everything is nice and wet outside. :)
These are what I am planting outside in the courtyard this year: heirloom tomatoes (just one variety, not two; I realized once I got outside that the other packet was empty, lol), jalape帽o peppers, scarlet clover, and green onion. There will be more plants planted on the balcony another day.
I was sad to see that the statues I had out there, that I had made in high school, were broken into dozens of pieces. I think they had been absorbing moisture from the soil they were sitting in and that did them in. I had kept them on the balcony for years before the community garden started, but they were not sitting directly in any pots then. My mistake.
I have two containers this year, woohoo! My usual box plus the big black pot next to it. So tomatoes went into the big pot, and everything else into the box.
I saw TWO little centipedes plus a small spider in my box, but I didn't freak out too hard, so I was proud of myself, lol. I have had a terrible bug phobia, so the fact that I didn't freak out is progress!
Official photo of day one planted. I can't wait to see everything grow! a wish me luck! :)