Instead of just thinking 'I wanna grow some food this year', I put actual seeds in some dirt, and I'm gonna grow some food this year.

Instead of just dreaming and planning out a garden this winter, I actually planted seeds indoors and got some things started early.

Instead of just talking about actions of the past, I took pictures of what already is, and what's gonna be. For example, aside from the food that is already growing:

There's already a cat by the birdbath.

There's already buttercups;

An inchworm has already traveled a few yards;

Buttercups again, you knew about those already, but let's have another look, they and these clovers will be here all year.

Behind the buttercups and clover, there's gonna be peas, and those peas are gonna be picked right off the vine, and as @jedau might say, "snaccidentally" eaten on the spot:

There will be blueberries.

There's gonna be a lot of blueberries.

There's gonna be beans...

There's gonna be two kinds of basil, sweet basil:

And even though it's tiny basil now, there is gonna be Thai basil later:

There's already deep purple petunias around the garden:

I get the darkest purple petunias because I know how they are gonna smell when the sun begins to set, and the air cools down. Of all the petunias, the dark purple ones are gonna smell the best.

Oh, there's gonna be carrots, and the deer are not gonna eat them this year:

Later, in the heat of the summer, there's gonna be long skinny little heirloom cayenne peppers:

There's gonna be lots of food in the garden this year, and the sugar baby watermelons sprouted last night, so there will be melons. In fact, according to these last two photos, there's gonna be other melons besides watermelons-- there's gonna be some golden cantaloupes:

There's gonna be a lot of things in the garden this year that didn't make the photo shoot this time, but I'm gonna wrap this one up. Thanks for looking at the garden with me!

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all images above mine, taken with Canon Rebel, 2018 in the Ozarks in the springtime

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