Garden under attack!

My leaves have holes on them! They are on the bean plants, tomato plants, sunflowers, even in the mint! Evidently I'm facing an enemy with a big appetite!



This is the main suspect at the time. I found 5 of them hiding under bean and tomato plants leaves (needless to say, I helped them move on to their next life).


I'll keep on checking on the plants to catch these little buggers before they do too much damage or become bigger. Any advice?

Tomato blooms

We have our first tomato flower!

I don't know why it makes me so excited since I'm not going to eat it (eeew!). However I can't wait for it to look like a tomato.
I think it's because this will be the first edible thing that wasn't there when we bought it (strawberries don't count because they came with the plant, even if they were still tiny and green).

Lettuce and tomatoes :o

In the first post I mentioned we got some lettuce and tomatoes, but I never got around to posting a picture. In all honesty, I hate them! So I haven't been paying attention at all.

This is what they looked like on the day we got them:

And today, only 2 weeks later, they look like this:


I am impressed with how much everything is growing! I honestly didn't expect it.

The beginning

On Saturday we bought our first herbs & edible plants.

Mint and basil for my window. I love the smell of mint, and basil supposedly keeps flies away.

We also bought a strawberry plant (that came with a wonderful strawberry - that my dog ate before I could even take a picture!). There's still a small tiny white/green strawberry that will hopefully grow so I can taste it too.
I read somewhere that strawberries can really take over the place if you let them, so we put it on a smallish pot. But I hope it grows and we can have more strawberry plants.
I love all sorts of berries, so I'd love to get some other kinds too...

Some sweet corn, that apparently we shouldn't have planted in rows and now I'll have to pollinate myself. Don't know how, though.

We also got some red lettuce and tomatoes (I don't like either, so I'm not paying much attention to those) and some lemon verbena (that apparently reminds my mom of her childhood).