The First Bell Pepper

Here is the first of the peppers we planted, a green bell pepper. While it's just a small pepper now, we expect it will continue to flourish in our desert garden as well as be joined by it's cousins, the red, yellow & jalapeno peppers.
It seems every day now there is something new happening in the garden and it is truely exciting to watch Mother Nature do her work! Each morning we look forward to checking what new has been happening there!

Finished and Planted

Now we are finally finished with the plant selection, the layout, the planting and the irrigation setup. It remains to see what ends up growing. The initial expenditures have been quite a bit more than originally planned and, depending on the size of the crop, could end up costing about $2.00 a bite! Ha!
We had .4 inches of rain in the past 24 hours on our freshly planted garden and are really hoping it didn't sustain any substantial damage from the soaking!

Starting to Plant

Getting plants readyGardening makes me tired!
Planting tomato plants
More preperations

Now we finally have our garden ready and can begin planting! The irrigation system seems to work as it is supposed to and we have decided what we want to plant in our desert garden.