Garden Week 1

Thankfully the weather wasn't too bad this weekend, so I was able to get out and work in the garden beds. I'm so excited to have a project that I can work on all spring/summer/fall!

Germinating radish

Walla Walla onions - might possibly become green onions?

Romaine lettuce (from transplant)

Today, I filled up the second bed. This time I actually marked off my square feet with yarn and a staple gun. I wish I would have had 5 hands to hold everything, but I managed to measure out the spaces fairly fast. This bed also holds cool weather veggies.

Today I planted:

4 older Buttercrunch lettuce transplants

3 sq.ft. Beet seeds (I presoaked them a little, because they take forever to germinate)

1 sq ft Carrot seeds (Larger)

1 sq ft Carrot seeds (Little finger baby's)

2 sq ft Arugula seeds

4 sg ft Cauliflower transplants

2 sq ft Red Cabbage transplants

5 sq ft Golden Acre Cabbage transplants

1 sq ft of 3 puny-sad-looking cabbage transplants (we'll see what happens...)

Cabbage + Cauliflower

We bought a trellis this weekend for the growing peas.

I also planted some Little Marvel peas seeds behind some lettuce and added a few spinach seeds to the spinach plot. Not too many of the spinach seeds have germinated yet, so I thought I'd throw in a few extras just in case. The arugula and lettuce mix is also coming up, but I'll take a picture in a few days when it looks a bit more substantial. :) I've yet to see a whole lot from the carrots...but they take a bit longer to germinate so hopefully they will start to sprout soon!

I've also got a sweet potato in water and I'm trying to grow some splits. We don't really eat sweet potatoes, but I think it would be really fun to try and grow them. They are such a healthy vegetable, so I think I would be encouraged to eat them more if I grew my own. I think I'll grow them in containers to save space in the beds for other veggies we eat a lot of (tomatoes, peppers, etc)...we'll see!