So, here it is in late April, its time for a gardening update at Rosey Disposition!

So far this year, we have done a lot, from the sod, to pavers (post still to come), and many things indoors.  Amongst all of this has been more gardening.  You may remember our last gardening updates, here and lastly here .  You may remember in the first update we did, our Avocado plant hadn’t made it, we have an update on that!

Lets start with our updated Veggie garden.  This year, we went with three versions of tomato plants, five cucumber plants (yes…5), basil and cilantro again, as well as two different bell pepper varieties, and we recently planted a greek oregano plant.  One thing you will notice, is that the rosemary has made it through the Florida “winter” and is huge! Feel free to flip to the old posts to compare this year to last year, but it seems to be doing better, mainly because we planted before the dead heat of summer and rainy season.

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It has taken a while to get this post up.  We initially resodded in the last weekend in February.

We received a few quotes to have our sod professionally done, but they both seemed like too much to pay for what we could do it ourselves for.

After much researching, the venture started on a Friday night, by renting a U-Haul pickup truck and immediately heading over to Home Depot.  At the store, we bought compost, a “bagster” (shown later), a wheel barrow and other miscellaneous things.  The big thing we did was rent a sod cutter, the type seen below, $90 for a 1 day rental.

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This will be the first of at least three posts about some gardening/landscaping which we’ve done in February and March, its been tough!

We had made plans for some landscaping and pavers to be done, but first, we had some LARGE ugly plants, which had to be moved.  We got quotes from some landscapers to remove them, and they wanted between $150 and $200.  I was trying to be stingy, so I figured I’d try myself…little did I know it would take hours and I would break a shovel along the way.

On the same weekend, we decided to move the fence on one side of our property up towards the street about 15 feet.  This would then give us 15 more usable feet in the backyard and our Air Conditioner would no longer be visible from the street.

Not to get too much into detail on a cut and dry project, here are some pictures of the plants to start.

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So, remember a few weeks ago, we gave an update on our garden?  Well, here is another small one.  It involves our Cucumber plant.

Here is our cucumber, or so we thought.

So, we found it funny how the “cucumbers” looked for the past few weeks and I thought maybe I just misremembered what cucumbers looked like when growing.  This weekend we went out to a green market and I saw a basket of Okra, and it looked surprisingly like our cucumbers.  It got me curious and we stopped in at the nursery we bought these from, and saw some big Okra plants there, so thats what we have!

Luckily we explained how we bought a plant that had a “cucumber” tag on it, and they gave us a free new cucumber plant, apparently someone thought it’d be funny to do this.  Now we have this huge Okra plant and have no idea what to do with it.  Any ideas??

Anyway, here is our new cucumber plant, and we purchased an additional tomato plant incase our current one doesn’t make it through its problems.

Back in early July, M’s Mom or MIL as E calls her came in to visit for a long weekend. It was great having her and in addition, she helped us jump start our garden, flowers, vegetables and even spices.

We took some pictures back in mid July of our fruit and vegetable plants we put in. Those pictures are below, but notice the sickly looking Avocado tree in one of them. That tree took on a story of its own that will be addressed in this post.

We have planted the following vegetables/spices so far (left to right) : Hot peppers, Basil, Cucumber, Beefsteak tomato, Rosemary and finally green peppers.  The Green Peppers are too far to the right in the first picture.

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