Photo update

Growing nicely...



Red Oak Leaf Lettuce out of control



Rainbow carrots sprouting



Gigantic broccoli and buttercrunch lettuce

Update from the side of the garden (iPhones rock!)

Spinach is flourishing! This is very exciting, since our spinach last year never sprouted. If there is anyone who is not convinced about Mel's Mix, let me be the light. I had 4 broccoli seedings from a plant sale, rootbound and wilted. 12 hours later they are upright and regaining color. GO COMPOST! If only we could make our own...

Poor Peppers

I hate to admit defeat, but I think I'm going to have to go buy ::shudder:: a pepper plant or two. When we planted the other box a few days ago, we put in the two poblano seeds that we started awhile back that have never done anything. Let me rephrase that: we planted a bunch of soil, with a poblano seed in there somewhere.

Part of the fun in planting what we did this year is to supplement what we wouldn't be receiving from our CSA. We focused more on (as Kathryn likes to call them) snack foods. Poblanos don't necessarily constitute as a "snack food", but I don't believe they are a part of our CSA. And I like peppers, so, there you go.

Dirty Hands

There's something truly amazing about putting something in the earth and watching it grow. I was finally able to plant something in a box!! (thank you to Kathryn for preparing the whole cold-weather box). Our seedlings were desperately needing a change of habitat, and most were growing tired of their newspaper homes, so we put them in the ground yesterday. I'm hoping that we didn't jump the gun on planting the warmer weather crops right now, but our tarp-covering system has seemed to be working when they need protection from the colder WNC nights.

Can't see much going on right now except for the sweet corn growin' wild.

Early morning in the garden

There's something blissful about going out to the garden in your jammies.

Even more blissful is weeding said garden, in said jammies, in less time than it takes to brew coffee.

I saw the weed. It saw me. I walked over to it. It shuddered (ok, there was a breeze, but still).

With two fingers, I pulled the bastard out of the box. Root ball and all.

Weeding is done, dude.

Damn, I LOVE SFGardening.

Pictures!!

The cold weather box: (from top left) Red Sail and Red Oak Leaf lettuce, strawberries, two broccolis, spinach, butter crunch lettuce, leeks, rainbow mix carrots, and peas.



Lots of sweet corn, basil, black krim tomatoes, rainbow bell tomatoes, poblanos (haven't sprouted yet), more broccoli.


Sweet Baby tomatoes, fairy tale eggplant, marigolds

Is it done yet?

As much as I love being an ignorant gardener (after all, it means I am constantly learning!) but I am definitely NOT a patient gardener.

The cold box now holds 1 square of Buttercrunch lettuce, 2 squares of broccoli, 2 squares of strawberries, 3 squares of red oak leave lettuce and red sail lettuce (mixed), 2 squares of rainbow mix carrots, 1 square of vital green spinach, and 2 squares of mira green peas. That leaves just two boxes left, one each for a black krim and rainbow bell tomato.

We had a light frost last night, but the box was covered with a tarp (we're using old tent poles for a frame). Everything is looking good!

Three weeks in, and there's been exactly 0 incidents of weeding. LOVE IT. That reason alone has converted me to Square Foot Gardening.