I decided to go with two types of basil this year! On the left is your normal variety which I grew from seed sent to me from my friend Jeane..It’s doing AMAZING and I just love growing herbs from seed :) It amazes me to see these wonderful plants come from such tiny seed. The one on the right is a basil called Greek basil that I found at my local nursery. It has much smaller and thinner leaves and it’s smell is a little sweeter than the regular basil. Haven’t cooked with it yet, but I love it’s smell and it’s a really beautiful plant!

I know I’ve been a total fail of a tumblr friend guys and I’m sorry for that, but I DO miss you guys! And I wanted to let you all know that I’m giving away seeds on my other blog! So if you’re interested, come sign up!!  Here’s the link!!

Today has been one of the best days of the year yet :D And it’s been a pretty damn good year :p Know why? I planted my garden today!! Well the seeds at least. And I’m going bigger and better than ever before. I planted 32 plants. I’m having a little bit of anxiety because I plan on buying a house soon which means that I won’t have any seeds for my own house…or it’ll be too late to start them. But I can always buy transplants, right? I just HAVE to have my hands in the mud or I don’t feel right. Anyway, these are the seeds I started today:

• 1 striped eggplant
• 1 louisiana long green eggplant
• 1 black beauty eggplant
• 2 market more cucumbers
• 2 green long pod okra
• 2 jalapenos
• 2 ancho chili peppers
• 1 brandywine tomato
• 1 emmy tomato (yellow)
• 1 roma tomato
• 1 cherokee purple tomato
• 2 italian heirloom tomatoes
• 1 cherry tomato
• 6 lima beans
• 6 golden bantam corns
• 2 bell peppers

On top of that, I planted some peony bulbs and some dutch iris bulbs today along with a blackberry bush! So what are you planning for your garden this year? And have you started your seeds yet??

One little zinnia plant managed to survive after I pulled all of the flowers up. It put out a beautiful little flower today :)

Zinnias are starting to die off and with that comes lots of seeds!! Lemme know if you want some seeds..I’ll have tons of them!

Can’t believe how fast these seeds are growing! Everything’s up except for the rhubarb and ground cherries…

Cut my first sugar baby watermelon and it was so good!! It’s the size of a grapefruit XD so cute! Saved some seeds! Sent me a message if you want me to send you some!!

The lemon tree that I planted from a seed has new growth! I though it had stopped :p I’ve heard though that if you grow a fruit tree from seed, you can expect it to take 10-15 years to bear fruit…that’s alright..I got that.

And then there is the coreopsis which are absolutely stunning! I love them so much. First year I’ve ever grown them. All of my flowers are from seed by the way…it’s just rewarding when they come up like that :)