Thursday, June 12, 2014
Some success and some lessons
Grannie Annie, a gardening aficionado visited this weekend and helped me to take stock of our garden. I'm such an amateur that I don't even know what success looks like unless it's staring me in the face.
On the bright side, we tasted our first peas and they were delicious, and also harvested some of our mesclun greens, which appear to be doing well. On the not so bright side, I learned that our radishes and spinach are basically a bust, exhibiting what Anne called 'bolting'. Thus, we pulled them out and made room to use the space for something else, starting with our potted tomatoes, which Anne informed me were beginning to look cramped in their pots.
We read a bit about the bolting phenomenon for radishes and learned that common causes are warm weather and/or not enough direct sun. Another cause is planting too densely, which I suspect may have contributed in our case, as little hands eagerly dumped seeds.
Sunday, June 1, 2014
My first attempt at chronicling our family's garden.
Our garden
Our garden
Three varieties of tomato |
Radishes |
Bordeaux Spinach |
Mescluns |
Lettuce |
Carrots |
Sugar snap peas galore! |
A closer look at snap peas |
Our first pod |
Herbs galore |
Mojito mint :) |
Kale and chives taking off |
Strawberries 1 |
More strawberries (we hope) |
