The Garden Grows

It has really been fun watching the garden progress. I was out of town all last week and when I came back it seemed like my child and my garden had grown by leaps and bounds.

The lettuce, spinach, and broccoli are really covering some ground. I have lost three onions but that's the reason I planted over 20. What I don't use at harvest time, I will chop up and throw in the freezer. At $3.00 a bag for the pre-chopped frozen onion, there is some serious coin to be saved with this little farmer's plot. The container in the garden is radishes. My tomatos are slow but I think they'll pick up the growing pace once it really starts warming up.

Here's a close-up of some lettuce plants and the interspersed onions. I have been reading in several of my magazines about mixing in different vegetables together in order to fit more into the garden. So far, so good. We'll see how things look in another few weeks. It is also time to put another layer of compost on...the rain washed some away.

And this blurry last photo is the other side of the patio for garden number two. I pulled my hamstring this weekend and couldn't bend over to plant on Sunday evening, so I walked around dropped the plants where I wanted them and Hubby planted for me. Against the wall, there is a bell pepper plant, a jasmine vine, asparagus (second year harvester), and rhubarb (second year harvester). The cucumber plant is on the left hand side where I will eventually put stakes in the ground with string creating a growing net. There is a zucchini plant in the middle. Another squash plant on the lower left corner, and two watermelon vines on the front edge (so they can grow out into the yard). On the right hand side those are two different types of potatoes with red onions to intersperse between the potato plants. I don't have high hopes for the spuds, but will be pleasantly surprised if we get a few.

And that is how our garden grows right now!