garden box...10 days

jarad and i discussed getting a pet, and we can't seem to figure out what animal we could have that is low maintenence enough for our lifestyle.  we are both animal lovers, and have played with the idea of getting a chameleon.  we even went to the pet store last weekend to check them out...although very cool, they are not by any means "easy to take care of".  they require lots of live crickets everyday, daily cage cleanings and they can be aggressive.  they may not miss you during the day when you are at work, but they still need a lot of attention in other ways.  that is why i am thinking our garden box may be the perfect "pet" for us.

the box looks pretty much the same today, but everything looks slightly bigger.

the biggest difference i noticed this morning was the basil...it is starting to come through more.  it is starting to look like a small patch of clovers.

we started our garden box a little late in the season for tomatoes.  so we got one heirloom tomato plant and have it in a pot.  this tomato plant, the strawberries and the thai chilis are the only "transplants", everything else has been grown by seed, as the pilgrims did (our goal was to do it the "old-fashioned" way).  today i noticed two flowers on my tomato plant, this is also a new development.

my strawberries are getting some green berries, but also fungus or mushrooms?  i guess that is what you get for using a hand-me-down strawberry pot.

we will have to make a trellis for the peas to grow up, it says they need it to climb up once they reach approximately 3 inches, and i think we are pretty close.

the garden is not as cuddly as a puppy or cat, but it is really fun to see how it changes daily, well at least for now in the early stages.