Why Just Look At It When You Can Eat It?

My favorite part about living in LA is my garden. Before I moved here I though vegatables came only from the supermarket and now I am growing tomatoes, basil, zuchini, cucumber, pepper, dill, oregeno, rosemary , mint onion,sugar snap peas, blueberries, blackberries and strawberries and so far everything seems to be working.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Who knew?  I met this very cool hippyish guy, Tommy Teeple,  at the farmers market who owns a company that will build edible gardens and composts for you and I hired him to come check out my garden to see if I was doing it right. My neighbor and I listened to him tell us how he went from finance to farming and we were both so inspired.  I had attempted a garden before and my husband called it my $1,000  cucumber because that is the only thing that grew. I planted at the wrong time and the soil was filled with uncontollable roots from the last garden planted - so I dug the entire thing up and started again and I am thrilled!  Its growing and I am eating off the land - not quite! Don't be surprised if I trade in my Manolos and Dresses for Crocks and rubber gloves :)

Here are some pictures of my garden,

crazy that I could fit so much in this space

 The tomatoes shot up in 3 weeks - now they are almost my height

 Peppers and basil

 Can you see the sugar snap pea?

 Onion  and dill - the dill isn't doing that well - any tips?

Zucchini

More to come later - It is taking to long to up load. What do you think? are you inspired?
Rosemary

 Blueberries

 The blueberry bush

 The grove - orange tree

 The apple tree

 Lemons

 There is a lime and guava tree there to

 Have no clue what this is but I am sure I can eat it

 The strawberries