The garden is planted!

We have finished planting our garden!! This past weekend, we drove down to Austin for their weekly farmers' market to pick up some herbs (we gave up on sprouting the seeds ourselves). The farmers' market was great! Vendors were selling organic vegetables and herbs, honey, homemade granola, flowers, pastries... you name it. It was smaller than I had expected, but they had everything we could want. In the end, we bought a bunch of plants from P/2 Organic farm: Basil, lemon basil, peppermint, oregano, and tiny tim tomatoes.




















Lemon basil, just planted in the garden

After driving home from Austin, we stopped at Lowe's and bought nine more bags of organic soil. Not wanting to wait any longer for our garden to be, well, an actual garden, we drove straight home and got right to work! Here's the result:














We also have lavender, rosemary, and strawberries planted in there. Though Braeden picks herbs daily, we used our very own herbs for the first time in dinner last night: I sprinkled sliced lemon basil on top of spelt spaghetti with tomato-ricotta sauce. It was great!




















Braeden, getting in on the gardening action

I'll post updates as our plants (hopefully) start to flourish.