Remember this?
The beautiful lettuce table that Peter built for me in January? Well! Now it looks like this:
It’s lush with lettuce and strawberries! I feel like our gardening adventures are serving their purpose too – when I asked Bay if she would like a strawberry, she ran out the back door to the plant! The lettuce is very tasty too. We’ve had salads at every meal.
The Freesia and Star Jasmine scent the backyard with their sweet smell. We have blooms and fruit on the tomato plants and the Ocotillo is in full bloom too. And I also found a new addition, a tomatillo plant! Can’t wait for Peter’s delicious salsa verde. In short, our yard is smelling and tasting pretty delicious right now.
Freesia
Jasmine
The Ocotillo. It’s the lone survivor from our remodel. To give you an idea of its size, the wall next to it is 15 feet tall.
Blooms up close
Yummy heirloom tomatoes
Tomatillo – heloooo green enchiladas!
The Goon Room 
Dude, your thumb is CRAZY green.
Love it! Will be checking out more of your blog.
Thanks! So glad you liked it!
That’s some beautiful lettuce! And the table is a super-cute idea. Did you plant directly into the table, or into trays that set inside the different sections? I’m a garden blogger, so I got really excited when I saw this post!
Hi Ashley! The table is based on the Martha Stewart lettuce table design. Each section has two layers of mesh, one thicker than the other. Thanks for reading! I’ll be sure to keep updates on the tomatoes and tomatillos coming!
I’m Jealous! Nothing I planted actually lived last year so I am giving up this year. We don’t have good dirt at my place. I should have bought some.
Crystal
Dude I don’t know you but you are Dr. Greenthumb.
im so jealous!, ive been wanting to start my garden but school and work has taken up so much time. but i will start as soon as school is done. you gave me inspiration! nice post btw
What an amazingly fun idea: a lettuce table!?!? It’s beautiful!
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You have a beautiful backyard with all these plants.
Looks great in the nice weather!
Your garden looks gorgeous! And congrats on FP-ed! Hang of for the ride—————
Kathy
Great photos. I may try one of those benches next year. I’m trying to get my wife to let me expand the garden into a new area. She’s game, but our space is limited.
Love it. I’ll be checking this blog out more. How about putting a spider in your garden…look what this dude made..
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Love it. Also feeling pretty awful that I kill potted plants with no mercy 😦
How delightful!
Lovely back yard — I’m jealous! We still have snow on the ground — planting anything is still nothing but a dream in this neck of the woods. Loved your blog — congrats on being FP’d!
Holy BoJangles, girly. YOU IS FRESHLY PRESSED!
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Great Photos
Nice garden!! I wish i had your green thumb!! I can barely get grass to grow. Although I did buy a topsy turvey strawberry planter this year and my berries seem to be surviving… 🙂
We had terrible luck last summer with the strawberries in the topsy turvey. But the ground-grown ones had a bunker year…then my neighbor got drunk and ripped them all out, preferring to grow her beloved green peppers instead…I mean, how many green peppers can one woman eat?
Beautiful photos, and I am impressed with that ‘lettuce table’ idea. Mine are still in their seedling phase, and I am afraid they will wilt before planting.
Very inspirational and beautiful. It brings me joy that your little one can run out and grab a strawberry- simplicity at its finest!
I literally love the lettuce table. very jealous – i want one!
Lettuce table=genius, now I want one! Great blog!
I have a veggie garden in my backyard and a flower garden along our fence.. With a few other spots here & there.. But container gardens are just magical to me! It’s beautiful & functional. Hope you enjoy it all season long, thanks for the inspiration!
very nice plants!
With the price of greens these days, a lettuce table is genius. Very nice. Thanks for the idea 🙂
It’s great when things grow fast, I make do with trays lined up on a shelf, or will when we can rely on the weather. Today I am cursing bugs.
I am completely and totally jealous of your garden. I am going to show your lettuce beds to my husband;perhaps it will inspire him.
Beautiful! Well done!
That’s amazing~!
Still too cool here in Chicago for gardening, hopefully will get to it soon. Yours looks great! Congrats on being FP!
wow, You got strawberries in there.
I love strawberries. I’m going out to buy some.
What an inspiring post! Love coming across stuff like this. Thanks for sharing your beautiful space with us!
p.s I want a lettuce table too!
Oh this makes me so happy!! I have been blogging in search of garden inspiration and I´m so glad this was freshly pressed today! Its like wordpress knew!! hahahahahaha
Alessandra, I feel the same way! lol I have been looking for garden inspiration all over for my blog and wordpress must have just known lol. I wish I could have the same tasty salads every night for dinner, things are always tastier when they are from your own garden.
I love gardening! all your plants look really healthy: great photo’s!
Beautiful! We’re going to be starting up a little garden at our office this summer, but apparently we have a very short growing season here (we’re at high altitude… it is literally snowing outside right now). I’m really looking forward to learning how to do a bit of growing. 🙂
I have never heard of a lettuce table before – I love it!
Very nice garden. Your pictures gave me some few good ideas about improving my own garden, thanks a lot 🙂
Loving your garden, everything looks so neat and orderly. We still have snow inthe backyard, but I am itching to get out there and PLANT! I love the idea of a lettuce table!
I am coveting that wonderful table! So beautiful and functional. Do you live in CA? I’m thinking yes, because I’m on the East Coast and your season is far ahead of ours. Ocatillo is a cactus, right? So it wouldn’t flourish here.
Congrats on being Freshly Pressed, and thanks for the great pictures. Gardens are always inspiring to me.
i’ve often pondered starting my own garden…those pictures inspired me!
That lettuce table is so beautiful! Your garden is lovely, we are starting a garden a little at a time.
very very nice
where do you live that you are already eating garden veggies??? lucky gurl!
how deep is the space that you are growing the lettuces in?
ladyberrington
Hi Lady Berrington! I live in sunny Arizona 🙂 The depth of the spaces is about 6 inches. I’m going to post the instructions on how to make it tomorrow so stay tuned!
Hello. I love your photos and your gardening prowess. I’m jealous and want what you have…lots of home grown healthy foods. Yummm. BTW, that table your hubby made for you looks like it fits your needs. I’ve never seen anything quite like that for gardening, but I am not gardening savvy. Have a nice Tuesday evening. 🙂
Beautiful garden! We started a greenhouse ourselves (as it’s still too cold to plant outside)…and can’t wait to move the plants outdoors in our real garden!
WOW that is fabulous. Soooo jealous.
beauty 😀
so fresh!!!
Cool! I’m in Northern California Bay Area and my strawberries are in the ground, and they are blooming but no berries yet. Gotta love the Scottsdale sunshine, huh? Any tips on soil for the lettuce? Does the table help repel pests like caterpillars and snails? Thanks for sharing! As a fellow city dweller trying to grow stuff in containers, I can especially appreciate your accomplishment.
-Sally
(fellow mom to a toddler & kindergartner who both like digging in the dirt)
http://afterkids.wordpress.com/ (Sure, there are more pressing questions about motherhood – but mine is, “What do I Wear?”)
WOW!!! You were Freshly Pressed!!!! Congratulations, I hope your new readers love your blog as much as we do. xoxoxo
looking great!
Like the lettuce contraption. I’m definitely going to need one, all my plants either die or grow too large and die
Yeah that’s a good way to make space for plants and to grow fruits and vegetables. Very nice table.
Wonderful growing skills! Only yesterday I planted out some indoor tomatoes, lettuce and rocket – I can only wish that they grow to be as wonderful as yours. I could practically smell the freshness as I read your post. Thank you for sharing this fantastic reminder that home-grown can be truly great.
I’m starting to mend a garden. Hope it turns into something like this.
Beautiful garden…
I am also trying to grow a garden at my backyard, but it’s more of brown as yet. Hope to see it green and beautiful soon.
Very lovely! I wish I had your mad gardening skills! 🙂
I am insanely jealous of your garden. Very nice work, for some reason I am craving a strawberry salad right now…
Beautiful! I wish I could do with my garden too. Like it!
Looks beautiful!
Wow! I love the lettuce table, that’s an awesome idea! Off to look through more of your blog posts now! Maybe I’ll just pop out for some strawberries first… 🙂
As I move from an apartment with no outdoor areas to an apartment with a deck, I am looking forward to putting some plants out. I’ll probably go for pretty flowering kinds. But the idea of fresh lettuce sounds so yummy.
What a beautiful garden! I wish I had the time and space for something like that.
Beautiful! This is my first year of growing herbs and flowers on the balcony 🙂
lovely garden…you’ve inspired me to grow my own
Wow, you’re garden is amazing!
I’m Jealous! Nothing I planted actually lived last year so I am giving up this year. We don’t have good dirt at my place. I should have bought some.
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