How does your garden grow?

I'm not much of a gardener.  I've actually referred to myself as having a black thumb...  but I'm hoping to get better.  I'm working to get better.  Zoey and I have started a garden.  (Ok, it's still inside in cups - as you will see.)  I'm so excited to be able to eat fresh things that we have grown!!  Fresh foods that I know aren't covered in nasty chemicals!  (However, with the state of our water here....  ugh, I'm not so sure which is really better...) 

 In any case, it's a start!!  Here's what are trying first: peas, spinach, sweet basil, genovese basil (new to me!), and yellow pear tomatoes (since John doesn't like tomatoes I thought we'd start small here and buy tasty 'maters for me at the farm market this summer).  (Oh and one random apple seed in a cup... that was Zoey's specific addition a week or so ago.)  I also have mint...  mountains of different mint already in my flower beds from last year.  (That I can grow - because it's like a weed! Yippeee!!!)

 Here's sweet Zoey picking peas to plant.  They are the most fun...  because the seeds are.. well, PEAS! and They are actually growing very quickly!!  (As you will see..)

 Watering.  Watering...  I didn't want to dig out the big watering can, so our tea pot works just fine!

 More watering...  See the daisies that John gave us when he came back from a business trip.  (I have more pictures of them for a later date).

 Close up watering...  We labeled our yogurt cups (peas in deep yogurt cups because the package said they needed to be started 2 inches below the surface).  See, I'm learning.  READING and learning!! :)

 Our "greenhouse" - Set up in the spare bedroom.  The room we never go in.  The room full of junk.  Well, it has a window and the cats can't get in.  (That is, unless Zoey leaves the door open... but she's pretty good.)

 Basil!!  (Oooooh PESTOS to come again this summer!!!) 

 Our first sproutings (PEAS)

 Zoey loves to touch the pea sprouts.  I let her a little, but we try to let them live some too!

 Fast picture!

Today!!  Some three weeks into the process....  :)  Look at those PEAS!!!  Every "pot" has sprouted - except one... which I think is pretty good for us. Oh and that apple tree hasn't really donw anything yet either... ;-P   (I'm not sure if we are doing this all the "correct" way, but we are having fun!!) 

Now....  to get to Lowe's and buy some materials to build a fence...  We have HUNGRY deer here... and LOTS off them!