The garden grows!  I think we’re officially into summer garden territory now.  We’ve got:

• Greenery growing with wild abandon;
• Yellowing leaves that need to be pruned… already (damn you, Virginia sun!); and
• Beach toys everywhere.

We also have one missing stair railing – whoops!  After a substantial amount of nagging, our landlords finally made arrangements to have that fixed.  Hoping to have a fully-functional staircase again soon.  Anyway!  The garden!

Tomato pants are growing!  This one is looking a little spindly, which always seems to be the way with this pot.  What the what?  I didn’t snap a picture of my other tomato pot, but it’s looking better.  Both are showing signs of a few little green tomatoes, which is promising.  I’m being militant about the squirrel spray – these are my tomatoes!  The basil is looking pretty good, too – hoping this experiment of planting it together with the tomatoes works.  Otherwise I may end up back at the garden center buying another pot (twist my arm).

The mint is doing fabulously well!  This is spearmint, and a very happy spearmint it is, too.  Also – do you see what I see?

RASPBERRIES!  In POTS!  ON MY PATIO!  Happy dance, happy dance, happy dance.  This one wasn’t quite ripe yet, but there were two ripe ones when I checked on the plants after a weekend away.  Nugget and I enjoyed one each, and they were delicious.

Lettuces are doing well.  All three are butter lettuce, but the ones I planted in the larger pots have really flourished, and the one in the smaller pot is a bit stunted.  It might not be too late, though – in fact, maybe I will meander over to the garden center and get something a little bigger for this one, and move one of the basils into the smaller pot.  Hmmmmm.  Also: the lavender hasn’t flowered yet; I’m looking forward to smelling Provence on my patio this summer.

The herb pot is doing well, too.  Does anyone know if chive blossoms are edible?  Also, this lemon thyme turned out to be more of a creeper than a shrub, but I think it makes the pot look lovely (and you should smell it, y’all).

Finally – the blueberry pots are thriving!  I bought two varietals to see which was the better producer.  It seems the pot on the right is definitely going to be the star – too bad I’ve forgotten which varietal it is.  None of the berries are ripe yet.  I’m a little worried that they’ll be picked off by the neighborhood birds, but I’m watching the pots like a hawk (<–see what I did there?) and chasing away any critters who get too close to my precious berry bushes.

Here’s to another summer in the garden!

Have you planted your garden yet?  Planters or plots?  How’s it doing?