New plants!

We visited Earthfest 2013 today and found an awesome variety of veggie plants from local farms that were too good of a deal to pass up. Only problem with this type of shopping..... I don't have any space in the garden to plant them! The onion and garlic we planted in the box to overwinter is not ready to harvest yet, and its taking up the last bit of space that I was going to turnover and plant tomatoes in. "No worries," says the hubby, "we'll just make another box" ;) lol
So, a few hours of planning, drilling, and dirt later, we have a new box for the tomatoes!

We added posts to the front that are the same height as the fence to give us support for the bird netting that we found last year is a mandatory protection from our flying visitors. This will allow me to drape the netting across the posts and fence so it doesn't hang too close to the tomato plants.

We got 12 tomato plants, 2 basil plants, and a thyme plant for just $20! I learned last year how much Basil really does, and plan to keep it with my tomatoes from now on! I planted it in between the tomatoes last year, the plants all grew huge and we had far fewer bugs and pests than previous years. This year I'm trying to get into more perennial herbs as well, so the thyme will be a great addition to the variety of herbs I've already got going this year. Here's hoping I can keep up! Going to be a great year for gardening!