My garden is at least one step beyond the planning stages. Because now there are plants. Mostly, growing ones. It is neat.
Ignore our interesting garage and don't mind the weeds 'cause LOOK AT THE PLANTS!
I had previously planted
- 4 tomato plants
- zucchini
- radishes
- mini pumpkins (baby boo and jack-be-little)
- sugar snap peas
- marigolds
- morning glories
- sunflowers
- a variety of greens (buttercrunch, romaine, Swiss chard)
- sweet peppers
- herbs (cilantro, dill, parsley, oregano, basil)
Garden: Fail
The morning glories, sunflowers, and greens all faded pretty quickly after transplanting them outside. The sweet peppers were doing awesome (I hear they're picky), but then something ate them and the herbs. Boo. I am now armed with organic, fairly-nontoxic insecticide.
I am starting more of the Garden: Fail plants from seeds as we speak and I have high hopes for the next round.
In the meantime, we had our first harvest- radishes! I was super excited to pull these and thought they were so pretty and all that, then I left them out on the counter overnight and they were all weird and soft the next morning. SAD. Lesson learned? Figure out how to tell when something is ripe and store it properly.
Garden: Win
The chives are a source of amusement to me. They are quite pretty when blooming and the girls pluck shoots to munch on, so it seems they will spend the entire summer smelling of onions. Wait, is that a win?
The tomatoes are looking healthy, maybe because of the companion planting I did, what with the marigolds (natural pesticide in a pretty packaging) in front of them. Yes, I squealed when the first flower bloomed. I can only imagine what will happen if those morning glories work out.
I have no idea which way zucchini grow, but they're doing something that involves big yellow blossoms, which must be a good sign.
Sugar snap peas make white flowers. Who knew?
Pumpkins? I don't know what they're doing either, but they seem to be having a good time.
There are cedar 4X6s in the garage waiting to be transformed into Magical Bucket of Dirt #2. Between the beds, I'm going to do this...
Just the grass and pavers, not the BA chair and table (for now). With the two garden beds, we'll have a little corner of "garden space" left where we can put our good ol' Weber (thanks for that wedding present, Miss KV... and nice initials!) and one of those fire pits, plus a couple chairs. It'll be like we live in the suburbs or something. I'll make ice tea.
One year ago: Oh snap, the old-new design premeired
