Sunday, June 23, 2013

The Garden is a SWAMP, but our plot is high and dry!

The daily thunderstorms have turned the Community
Garden into a swamp.

Community Swamp Part II

There's water all around us, but our SQUARE FOOT
 Garden is High and Dry!!!!!

Box #1: Broccoli, Cauliflower and Peppers.

Box #2: Tomatoes, Green beans, Onions and Carrots.

A first brave tomato appeared today!

The broccoli is coming along.

More broccoli.
The Lettuce overwhelmed the garden and US!
We picked it, washed it and shared it.  We
Still have a mountain of it!


Saturday, June 15, 2013

June 15 - First Harvest!

June 15, 2013:  I had to harvest some lettuce!  It was so full and healthy I couldn't leave it another day.  We have two squares dedicated to green leaf lettuce, two for red and two for spinach.  Those others weren't ready but, thanks to all the rain and mild temps, the green leaf lettuce was growing like mad.
I LOVE square foot gardening.  Our garden is miles ahead
of everyone else's at the Community Garden.
Partly because we got it in between the last
snow and the first rain on May 10th!

















Our first harvest, June 15.  Not exactly harvest time!
Plenty of lettuce still in the square foot garden for later!
















And now, I must report a stupidity.  All my dumbness, not Sandy's!!!!
I planted a row of green peppers between our broccoli and cauliflower!!!
The enormous leaves are shading and overwhelming the little green pepper plants.
I didn't realize they got so BIG!  DUMB!  Won't make THAT mistake again!

















Today we are having salads like this!

Friday, June 7, 2013

Inch by Inch, Row by Row

Inch by inch, row by row, I'm gonna make this garden grow
All it takes is a rake and a hoe and a piece of fertile ground
Inch by inch, row by row, someone bless these seeds I sow
Someone warm them from below 'til the rain comes tumbling down -- Peter, Paul and Mary

Been a good gardening month!  Hardly had to water at all!  Thanks, God!!!
May 21, 2013
June 7, 2013
Box # 1 - Red and Green Peppers, Anaheim Peppers,
Cauliflower and Broccoli!

Box #2  - Tomatoes, Red and Green Lettuce, Spinach,
Onions, and Carrots!