My Poor Garden

As you will shortly see, the following pictures will show how badly my gardening experience is going up here.  I'm not even counting the fact that my dad is pulling the biggest, ripest, most successful crop of tomatoes he's had in history!  I've hardly just put mine in the ground.  But it doesn't matter.

The wind, the dog, the cat, the wind...they are all my enemies when it comes to my garden.



I have planted a few Lantana plants and so far two out of three are hanging on.

Hardly hanging in there.

Here's my hope.  I'm hoping it has a will to live.

 Here's an example one of my enemies.  The wind...it blows much.  It blows hard.  It blows nonstop!  As a matter of fact, I can hear it slamming against my window right now as I am writing.  It blows stinging sand at your feet and grit in your mouth. 

It kills my pepper plants.

 It kills my tomato plants.

 My one tomato plant that may have a chance.  That is if I can keep the dang Cat from thinking the garden is a litter box.  Hence the pine cones.  A woman told me it helps to keep the cats out.  I also sprinkled Tabasco sauce all over the garden which seemed to help but when I water or it rains, it goes away.  Sigh!

 This is one of my tomato plants that did not survive the wind.  I planted a few in different places just in case they didn't like where they were.  This one was in a container.  First one to die.

Morning glory I think.  I had a ton of it come up last year except I didn't know what it was so I kept pulling it up thinking it was a weed (which I guess it could technically be considered that because apparently NOTHING kills it).  So it's either Morning glory or a weed.  It's pretty much the only thing I can grow so I hate to pull it up.

 This is one of my bigger problems.  This was actually one of the pepper plants that was withstanding the wind.  Maybe it's because it has so many holes, the wind blows through the leaves instead of whipping them around.

Aha!  This may be one of my biggest problems!  GRASSHOPPERS!!!!  Last year they stripped everything.  Even our bushes.  And they just continue to get bigger and eat more.

 And then there's this matter.  Dang Cat!!!  Doesn't matter how many times I swat him with my flip flop he has no respect for my boundaries!!!

Or this guys boundaries!!!!

As you can see, our grass has no problem growing.  Much to the boy's dismay!!  Heehee!