Seedlings are breaking through!

Just breaking through and ready to be thinned.

We finished seeding on May 10, just the cold weather stuff:  carrots, cucumbers, lettuce and radishes.  The seed packets predict 7-10 days to germinate and they were pretty close.

Our Garden as of MAY 21!

The soil was a little damper than one would want, but the moisture was helpful in getting the seeds started and that organic cow manure really fed them!  AND the weeds.  So the next step is to thin the rows to give the lucky plants room to grow and keep the weeds at bay.

Our Garden Begins

I have always wanted to have a garden.  This summer, we finally have one.  After too many years in an apartment we are now in a classy townhouse and just a few blocks from the Community Garden.  So we got a plot and decided to grow a salad garden.  I've done a LOT of reading and still know nothing.

     The one thing I KNOW is that you have to prep the seed bed and you can't plant many things until the night time temps are 50 or better.  To celebrate MAY DAY, we took the comfy temps as a sign that it was time to prep the seed bed.  My car was filled with 160 pounds of pure manure (not the first time!)

The Seed bed,  Watch our 9X15 foot garden grow!

We spread it, worked it in and hauled away the weeds that had already taken hold.
     This summer I will blog our first bumbling forays into the miraculous process of growing living things to kill and eat!