So about now you are thinking to yourself, are those all vodka bottles?  And the answer is yes they are.  No, I did not drink that much vodka, and it took quite a while (more than a year) to acquire them all.  I love cobalt blue glass and put out a call for friends to save their Skye Vodka bottles for me.  Sometimes there would be bags of them left on my porch and as you might imagine I became concerned for my reputation. Good grief.  I filled up one of the back barns (see photo above) with previously mentioned bottles and then feared that if I died prematurely, once again my reputation would be sullied.

So this spring, when we put in this fence and removed a thick growth of junk bushes and an old chain link fence I decided to make raised beds.  I remembered all my blue bottles and voila!

Remember I live downtown with about a quarter of an acre that I call home.  My house is over 100 years old too.  I am feeling so vital and strong this year and decided that digging in the dirt would be a great way to stay on this road to health.  Look at the size of those mater plants!  I have banana trees too.

There is a little herb garden right outside the back porch for easy access.

Up and down the fence row I am anticipating sunflowers and zinnias. Maybe in about two weeks there will have flowers.

I am starting to reap the rewards of the garden itself.  The squash and zucchini were suffering from blossom end rot,but I have dosed them with Epsom salts for calcium and finally they are healthy and happy.

I started my tomatoes very early and here are the first ones off the vine!

I love my garden.