I decided to try gardening this year - nothing too involved, just a little salad garden as an experiment to see whether I could keep plants alive instead of killing them (so far, all of the inside plants have died tragically). I started off with an heirloom cherry tomato plant, some cucumbers and peppers, and a few strawberry plants.
After the deer nearly finished off my tomatoes and strawberries, I surrounded my garden with netting and waited to see whether or not it would survive. It's been 3 months, and thanks to some wonderful friends, I've ended up with a bigger garden than I anticipated: 2 cucumber plants, 3 pepper plants, mixed lettuce, strawberries, 4 broccoli plants, chives, basil, dill, parsley, cilantro, and 12 tomato plants!
And vegetables are growing! I've harvested several cucumbers and a handful of strawberries, and am delighted every time I go out to the garden and find something new growing: blossoms and then fruit on several of my tomato plants, tiny little peppers, and the beginnings of some very lovely broccoli florets. I can't wait to eat it all!
You can see all of the progress here in my photo album, if you like. I hope you enjoy! 
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