getting our hands dirty

[spiderdust]

ldyicefire and I just got back from getting some plants and supplies for our garden. We bought:

pineapple mint

a terra cotta pot for the mint (since we don't want it to overtake the yard)

Cherokee Purple tomatoes (a pinkish-purplish heirloom variety, comparable to Brandywine)

Black Krim tomatoes (brownish purple heirloom)

Sweet 100 tomatoes (because I like them)

lemon cucumbers (yellow globe-shaped cucumbers)

Bravo pickling cucumbers (although the lemon cucumbers also pickle well, these are the standard green ones)

lemon thyme

mixed leaf lettuces (I don't know which lettuces exactly, but we saw some green and red leaf varieties in there)

purple petunias

variegated oregano

seeds for Dwarf Jewel Blend nasturtiums and Moonflowers

neem spray (non-harmful spray for the roses to get rid of the rust mold)

E.B. Stone Organics Sure Start

GreenAll organic soil booster (to mix with the Sure Start, our own compost, and some of the native soil)

pruning shears (the ones we have are to small for the rose bushes)

a good all-purpose gardening tool

We intentionally didn't get any zucchini because we know too many people who have zucchini plants. ;) We also didn't get any basil plants for the very same reason.

(Yes, we know lots of people with tomatoes, but we wanted these tomatoes!)