Two birds gardens with one stone goal

Well, actually it is 2 goals. I have never been good at making up clever titles to these posts. Oh well!

I have been lagging a bit in the posting department because I have been way too busy and way too tired lately. This pregnancy is really kicking my tuckus, I tell ya. I get home from work and have to corral crazy Natey until bed time and by the time I get him down I am so zapped I can barely keep my eyes open. I am hoping to strike some kind of balance soon.

Anyway, back to the matter at hand. I have 2 goals on my 101 that, now that I think about it, could have been one goal. I wanted to plant an herb garden and a vegetable garden. I think I had originally planned to try the herbs first and then progress to the veggies, but I jumped right in all at once and we built 2 raised bed gardens in our back yard. This project has taken about 3 weeks from start to finish because of the a fore mentioned busy and tiredness! One weekend we got the boxes built, the next day we managed to get them filled with the soil. They sat filled but devoid of plants for almost 2 weeks. We got the seedlings on a Sunday and kept them in trays on our deck for 4 days before I realized that, if we didn't plant them, they were all going to die. We got one box sectioned off and the saddest of the seedlings transplanted and then it took 2 more days to get the other box planted.

I was a little worried about the lettuce. Some of them were so wilted from the heat that we had for a couple of days, but as soon as we got them planted they came back to life! So here's what we planted:

For herbs we've got parsley, basil, cilantro and rosemary (in a separate pot), chives and oregano. Boston leaf, red leaf and romaine lettuces. Broccoli, cauliflower, beets, spinach, red onions and sweet onions.

The other box has 4 different kinds of tomatoes, zucchini, summer squash, eggplant, jalapenos, red bell pepper, yellow bell pepper, sweet Italian pepper, cucumbers and pole beans.
I am so excited to have gotten this project done, even if it did take me 3 times as long as I would have liked. I guess sometimes I think I should be able to do everything and not have to slow down. I am learning that not every pregnancy is the same and, for this one, I have to take things a little more slowly...even if it does drive me crazy! Now, if I can just keep Natey from pulling my plants out {it's happened twice already} we'll be ok!