If you've been following our 1920s vintage bungalow renovation, you'll know that transforming the yard from a jungle to a beautiful garden has been a major task!  It's been worth every minute though so I thought I'd give an update on our 2016 garden so far.

, Vintage Life: Roses in Bloom

Last year a friend of ours let Greg and I come pick some of her tomatoes and they were the BEST-tasting tomatoes I've ever had! They were bright orangey-yellow and were very meaty with hardly any juice. I saved the seeds and planted them, along with some peppers, in early March, lovingly raising them under grow lights in our bathroom until they were ready to be planted outside in early May.

, Vintage Life: Roses in Bloom

Minkey and Rudy helped inspect my progress after I finished planting everything - a whole box just of tomatoes, another bed of mostly peppers, cucumbers, and zucchini, a third bed with mostly cucumbers and collards. The fourth bed is our strawberry patch that is already putting out sweet red fruit. Our peach trees are full of baby peaches and our fig trees are just starting to set baby figs.

, Vintage Life: Roses in Bloom

My rose bed I built around the mailbox is currently in full bloom! Those are vintage bricks around the rose bed... of course!

, Vintage Life: Roses in Bloom

I also put azealas in the front bed. They bloomed beautifully this spring!

, Vintage Life: Roses in Bloom

Squiggy enjoys hanging out on the steps to bask among the flowers and keep an eye on the planters... just in case they try to misbehave!

, Vintage Life: Roses in Bloom

Here's another shot of the front yard showing our hanging baskets. Our Flamepoint Siamese cat Roxy is peering out from the cat patio too, but you might not see her in the photo.

, Vintage Life: Roses in Bloom

And good news - our blueberry patch seems finally be growing! It is hard to spot, but we have a few blackberry plants under the tree that are starting to form a bramble.

, Vintage Life: Roses in Bloom

That's the tour of our garden this month! If you want to see how far we have come, check out this post about how the "garden" looked when we first moved in: Vintage LIfe: Good Fences. We were told that nobody had done any yard work for at least 10 years, and it was easy to believe. Poison ivy covered the yard and Greg and I hauled about 4.5 tons of leaves and vines away, in addition to old tree limbs. You wouldn't believe it's the same property!

Or check out my recent post on Great ways to decorate the garden with flower pots for more inspiration on making your outdoor space a place you love. Tell us what you are doing in your garden in the comment box - we love to hear your stories![related_products is_auto_added="1"]

If you’ve been following our 1920s vintage bungalow renovation, you’ll know that transforming the yard from a jungle to a beautiful garden has been a major task!  It’s been worth every minute though so I thought I’d give an update on our 2016 garden so far. Last year a friend of ours let Greg and […]

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