It’s been one month since we planted the bulk of our container garden! Let me fill you in on how things have been going. First, this is what the main area of our garden looked like after we planted everything a month ago:

Here’s what it looks like now:

As you can see there’s been quite a bit of growth! I didn’t actually realize that it was quite this dramatic. Seeing everything every day like I do makes it harder to tell. 🙂

That whole front row is basil. I think we have just about every option covered as far as how all the plants are doing.…

Last weekend Jesse and I planted the rest of our container garden. If you haven’t been following my gardening posts, you might want to catch up by reading about planning for my first garden and my first day of gardening.

Our Setup

First of all, let me show you most of the new additions:

That’s one pot of red bell peppers, six pots of basil, one pot of cherry tomatoes and one pot of Early Girl tomatoes. We picked Early Girl because Colorado has a short growing season and, as the name implies, Early Girl starts producing tomatoes earlier than some other varieties.…