“Carrie, Carrie, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?”
Quite well, thank you!
Despite getting a somewhat late start, things are just popping up all over!
Potatos Going Wild
The potatos are going nuts! They’re just about to the point where I need to add another board and top them off with some straw. I’m very excited about how well they’re growing; but it is just a tad nerve-wracking to know that I may open up my towers in a few months to find only a handful of potatos.
The “climbing crops” are performing beautifully, as well. My next project is to add some twine for them to attach to while they grow.
Lots of Purple Podded Pole Beans
I’ve got 15 Purple Podded Pole Beans growing like mad. I certainly hope pole beans are safe for Zac, because I have a feeling we’re going to have a ton of them! I’m looking forward to watching these grow, because I’ve read they’re really beautiful plants in addition to their prolific bean production.
Cute little cucumbers
Five of the nine cucumbers I started have taken and started growing.
Single lonely Little Loofah
And one little, bitty Loofah is sprouting. Ah, well. That was mostly just for fun, anyway.
Swiss chard getting started
In the flat garden, the Swiss Chard is finally starting to pop up, though they’re a little slower than everything else.
Collard Greens saying hi
The Collard Greens are also slowly peeking through to say “hi”!
Is it carrots? Or just some weeds?
Sadly, my carrots don’t seem to be doing much of anything. I don’t know what I may have done wrong there. I do have some little green things that might be carrots, but, frankly, they look an awful lot like certain weeds and grasses that have been popping up in my gardens, so I’m really not sure.
Growing basil
I cheated; I forgot to order basil seeds, so I bit the bullet and bought baby plants to put in my garden. They’ve only been in for a short while, but they’re doing beautifully!
In our family, we can’t get enough basil. I’d been in the habit of growing basil during the summer months and drying it in my dehydrator for use through the year, but I completely dropped the ball on that last year.
This year, I’ve got 9 little basil plants that will keep us in basil until next summer! Yay!
Baby tomatos growing
The tomato seeds didn’t seem to be taking, but suddenly, last weekend, they took off!
More tomatos growing
I’ve now got a ton of little sprouts started, and hopefully they’ll get big FAST so I can get them into the garden.
No stevia plants. Bummer.
The stevia, on the other hand, just isn’t doing much of anything. Bummer.
What’s up with the weeds?
There’s only one thing I really want to know about my garden right now: what is UP with all the weeds? This photo was after one day of decent rain…the day before, there was nothing I hadn’t purposefully planted growing there.
One single day! Holy guacamole!
How come my plants can’t grow as prolifically as the weeds do?
Anyway, that’s a little update on the garden, and now I want to know: how is your garden growing now?
