Garden Week 3

I guess since we don't have children (yet!) I'll just have to blog about my garden - haha!

So slowly but surely we are recovering from the garden disaster on Monday. I've kinda gotten over it...that which will grow...will grow! :)

I bought 3 different types of basil seeds from Territorial Seed and started them today in egg cartons and black trays. I planted lime basil, siam queen (thai) basil and the classic sweet basil. Basil likes warm weather, so I am going to start these in my classroom because I have grow lights in my room. Hopefully, we'll have a warm summer (yeah right!) and I can get a good enough harvest to make/freeze my own pesto.

I also planted some cilantro in some transplant trays that I'll also take to my classroom lights. Can't wait for fresh salsa!

A clump of arugula and lettuce mix. Things are kind of clumpy and messy thanks to our " evil visitor."

So far, the radishes are doing okay. I'm a little worried they will have trouble forming an edible root, but we'll see! They are definitely behind schedule...

The spinach finally came up! YAY!

Walla walla onions are getting bigger too! These will take ALL SUMMER to grow.

Sugar Ann snap peas are starting to climb up the trellis. 

My second planting of radishes are in much neater rows. Thankfully, the evil creature didn't really disturb them.

My cauliflower (top) and cabbage still aren't looking so great. They lost a lot of support from the upheaval. Quite a few plants were found buried under soil in a completely different spot! I'm nervous about these guys!

Strawberry plant that overwintered...wondering if I'll get strawberries???

Lettuce transplants - not doing as well as I thought. They ended up with a lot of dirt on them from the evil creature's digging. Almost want to just start eating this now and plant something new...

Box number 2. There is random arugula everywhere, from the evil creature's digging - but at least it's growing! :)

I think I'm going to try and get some fertilizer this week and see if that will revive some of the older plants. It is supposed to be sunny this week too! We had nothing but pounding rain last week and I think the beds are getting a little soggy. 

Also...still no carrots. It's been 3 weeks. I might have seen beets today. So just in case, I am trying to germinate carrot and beet seeds in a wet paper towel in the warm house. Once the roots emerge, I'll place them outside and wish for the best. 

My potatoes also arrived from Territorial Seeds. We bought fancy french fingerlings (kind of like small red potatoes), because those are often more expensive to buy from the market and they are so tasty! Still haven't figured out where I want to grow them...but I've got some time, as it needs to warm up a little bit.

And last, I just found this funny article that talks about human urine as fertilizer! The study specifically cites urine as being beneficial to cabbage due to excess nitrogen. Hmmm...I think Dan would go for this!?! :)