My first harvest!!!

Omg!! My first harvest, ok so it's one radish but I'm totally excited!  I planted everything about 3 weeks ago in my awesome dirt mixture, well at least I think it's awesome.  The recipe is in an earlier post.  Everything is doing really well, and when I saw that radish a couple of days ago I thought, wow that's big.  I pulled it out today and it was a decent size radish. I say was cause my husband and I gobbled it up immediately.  It was really good. I replanted two more in its place.  Yeah I love this!

I'm a gardener now ;)

Lol, well sort of.  So here is a little update of everything that's been going on in the garden front.  My petunias are blooming, my snapdragons are about too and everything else is doing great.  
Now for the veggie garden, I didn't have any luck with my own kohlrabi or lettuce (starting them indoors) however once I just planted the lettuce seeds outside they came right up. I ended up buying a couple of packs of kohlrabi from my local nursery, and they just exploded once I put them in the garden boxes. I did make a boo boo in one of my boxes, actually I'm sure I've made several ;) but live and learn.  I planted my peppers with my kohlrabi thinking they would grow with them and since they were bigger I figured it would be alright. Not.. Like I said the kohlrabi exploded and my poor little peppers are now not getting any light.  So I may be moving them very shortly, I just don't know where too.   I think I'm alright the the other box. I tried to make sure I planted taller things in the back and smaller things in the front.  We will see.  We have been getting a lot of rain showers daily so I haven't had to water much, which is awesome. But we do need a few good days of sun.
I have to say I love my garden boxes, my father in-law made them for me and they rock.  No bending over of any sort.
Well I will keep you posted on my progress.  Oh I have been finding ladybugs and putting them in my boxes, I have aphids on my peppers.  So far they have been sticking around, but if they can't get a handle on them I may try a couple of the natural remedies I have found on Pinterest :)
Happy gardening!! 

Bird house

Wow time flies when your having fun, I planted my garden (in raised beds) I will take some pictures when everything is up.  Everything is now outside, my cucumbers and 2 of my squash are a little sad, I'm hoping that they will recover. Hopefully next year I will have a green house and they will stay inside. My tomatoes that I started from seed are very happy to be outside and I planted them with basil, I read it helps deterr pests and makes the tomatoes taste better. 
I also put all my petunias and snapdragons outside (the seeds that I started and collect from my plants last year).  They are doing great.  I will continue to collect seeds, the germination rate for my own seeds was 95% vs the store bought seeds at about 65%. However that was flowers only, my store bought veggie seeds were fine.
On another note my brother in-law made me a bird house and I painted it today.  Now just have to put it outside and it will be ready from some occupants :)
I've been very busy and loving every minute of it.  Hopefully I will have some time to write again soon.