Maybe I do have a Green Thumb?

I have never been much of a gardener. I decided earlier in the summer that if I was to work hard at tending to a garden I would love to grow fruits or veggies I could eat. Flowers are really pretty...but with the little free time I have, it wouldn't be enough of an incentive for me to really tend to a garden.  I decided to make the flower bed at the front of the house not just a flower bed, but also a veggie garden!

So I headed to Home Depot & Lowes to look at their potted veggies that were already started. I figured growing from seed was something to try another time. So I  bought 4 pepper plants ( a green, orange, yellow & red). I bought a squash plant, a cantaloupe plant, basil, & mint. I also decided to plant the tops of two pineapples I had purchased at the grocery store.

This is what the garden looked like right after we planted the flowers and veggies in May 2012

I was so proud of my little garden

A couple weeks after planting, I discovered my first pepper! Can you see it? (above)

My first cantaloupe!  Buggies discovered my cantaloupe as well, I hope it was tasty. So I haven't eaten one of my cantaloupes yet.  I have two more growing that I hope we can enjoy soon.

                                               Our 1st Yellow pepper!                                                                   Our 1st Red pepper!

Our basil plant tripled in size since I purchased it.

We've already harvested 1/2 a dozen peppers. We really haven't needed to water the plants much since it's been raining everyday this summer!

Our garden September 2012

It grew so fast!  What a difference a couple months makes!