If I used an Aerogarden seed starter kit for my fall garden, is that cheating?  My friend would whole heartedly say “YES”, but she also works from home, has a flexible schedule and is able to devote time every day to her garden.  She also has a huge back yard and has turned a good amount of it into a garden; she even built raised garden beds and irrigation systems! (I’m green with envy :))

Maybe it’s cheating, maybe it’s not.  It’s not like I’m talking about making homemade spaghetti and then opening a jar of sauce.  Kidding – Ha Ha; who hasn’t done this at least once??? 🙂  Regardless of if it’s cheating or not, I love my Aerogarden!  It is so easy to do the seedlings and they grow so fast.  This is 4 days after starting the seedlings in my AeroGarden…

This fall I am trying to grow Kale, Lettuce, Beets, Tomatoes, Carrots, Squash and Cantaloupe!  I’m pretty sure this is the wrong season for growing some of these (maybe most of them) LOL.  But I have little lights and a plastic cover which will turn the raised gardens into a kind of greenhouses – at least in my mind it will; I may be making this idea up in my head .  I sometimes do that.   The only seeds I planted directly into the soil are the carrots.

Two weeks after starting the seeds in the Aerogarden…transplanting time!  Mr. E. in all his fantastic-ness threw out all of that poop dirt in my raised gardens and replaced it with good soil.  (Thanks Mr. E.!)

I think I read somewhere that carrots love tomatoes… or maybe that was a title of a book that talked about companion gardening.  The author wrote two books and I think the other one was Roses Love Garlic?  Sound familiar? Anyway I planted carrots all around the tomatoes and just 3 weeks or so later…

I’m really excited for all of these, but realistically I think I only have a good chance of ‘enjoying the veggies of my labor’ (such a nerd) with the carrots, kale and maybe the beets. One of my squash plants is going crazy so maybe we’ll get something out of that!

Happy Fall!!