Cinderblock Gardening

Every year we want to plant a garden, and every year we find ourselves distracted by a project. Last fall we planted garlic but that was all we had done, but I still wanted to plant stuff.  I remember seeing on Pinterest someone who put a plant in a cinderblock and thought that was a neat idea! On Father's Day I went down to Home Depot and picked up a few cinderblocks to put on the top of our retaining wall.

I bought 8 cucumber plants.

 Starting to dig....

All my cinderblocks lined up!

My garden assistant Jack :)

We filled them each section with garden soil then planted the cucumbers.

 All planted, let's see how they grow!

4 weeks from planting and the cucumber plants are growing great!

Since my cucumbers were doing so well I decided I wanted to try something else. I went to the Farmer Market and bought some lettuce to plant, hoping it's grows just as well!

Anyone have some gardening tips they want to share?!

Gardening

When did I become into gardening? I have no freakin clue! Click here for my attempts last year! In the last couple of weeks, I have kind of gotten into it. I've enjoyed working outside. I got a bunch of plants from my next door neighbor and came up with the idea to make a little perennial garden in the corner of the back yard that use to have the pool.

A little gardening inspiration :)

Placing the plants to see how I should lay it out.

How Pretty!

I found this "rock" at The Christmas Tree Shop and thought it would be perfect!

The finished project! All it cost was the $1.69 for the "rock" everything else I got for free!

How Does Our Garden Grow?

In May we started a "garden". We planted some herbs and vegetables in deck planters.. they have grown so much! We are now be able to use the herbs and lettuce. We have really enjoyed doing it and are going to plant a big garden next summer!

We have 6 cucumber plants!

Yay! The cukes are starting to grow, we can now pick some!

2 of our tomato plants.

Look! Can you see 2 tomatoes growing?