How Does Your Garden Grow? In May

Exciting news, we harvested our first lettuce!  And it was delicious.

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As you can see, most of our greens are moving right along.  We still need to get some more tomato cages and I have plans to net our strawberries and trellis our cucumber and melons.  Cucumbers, melons, and our pepper plants are moving along slowly but the squash is growing like a foot at a time.

I also planted some nasturtiums and I have plans to try to grow lettuce and greens outdoors later on in the summer.  I read that we could try to shade them with taller plants so I have some sunflowers that will be going in as soon as I can make some time to get out there.

How Does Your Garden Grow? In April

So far . . . nothing is dead and one of our empty beds had developed an anthill.

 Our very first ripe strawberry!  It was delicious too.  Hopefully when Little Bit comes this weekend there will be more ripe ones for him to pick.  Plenty of green ones on the plant too.

 Lettuce and two of the tomato plants are coming along nicely.

 The greens look pretty good.

Lettuce and onions are lovely.

My experimental beds are actually coming along although you can't really tell in this picture.

One of my most intriguing garden experiments.  Clay pot irrigation.  I'm hoping that once my melon plants are bigger that this will help keep them hydrated when it gets really hot this summer.

The neighbor garden that looks way more awesome and professional than ours, lol.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

One of the great things about living in graduate housing with a large international student population is that resources are made available that a lot of Americans wouldn't consider asking for.

Like garden plots.  Our university plows up a patch of land every year and doles out garden plots to interested parties.  Wes and I signed up for one and just couldn't wait to get to work in it.  The last frost is scheduled for March 23 but . . . who can wait to play in the dirt?

Check it out.

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We decided to divide our plot into a number of semi raised beds.  We got a used hoe from ReTool that came in pretty handy for this.  We also got all McGeyver and utilized some of little bit's toys as garden tools.

 

 We planted three different varieties of tomato and basil plants.  I was thinking pomodoro sauce.

We also planted two varieties of lettuce and bellpeppers.

And a whole, whole lot of onions!

We've never had the run of our own garden before and this is my first time growing anything ever so we'll see how it turns out.

I'm excited!