It's a Garden, By Golly

Update for this week...

SPINACH:
Y - Not doing too well. Most of the green shown here is clover and weeds. Just the clump in the middles is spinach. Not even enough to make a small salad. Don't know why it didn't take off like the collards. Might not have planted enough seeds.
T - It all comes down to the dirt ... and hey, we actually got SOME of it to grow. Spring will be better!

SQUASH:
Y - Got our first blossoms this week!
T - Suddenly two blossoms have become five or seven.


BROCCOLI:
T - Stems of the broccoli are FINALLY starting to get thick and characteristic of the luscious vegetable that gave President George H. Bush nightmares.

CARROTS:
Y - We replanted a whole bunch that were too close together and got a look at what's growing underneath all these fuzzy green tops. And sure enough, there were little orange carrots starting to appear!

LETTUCE:
Y - After doubting if these would take hold or not... there are no doubts now. We had a mini salad last week. YUM! Next week I'll be harvesting a bunch to make salads for 4 people for a trip to the mountains.
T - I thought that the weird color was a sign of poor growth. I couldn't have been more wrong. This beautiful yellow-green-red lettuce seems to be of the butter crunch variety and is so delicious. Y tried my suggestion and cut leaves off to see if they would regrow like Chard does, and sure enough it regenerates. Winter salads, here we come!

SWISS CHARD:
Y - This is probably the most exciting for us because it looked the saddest in the garden for a while and we both like eating it so much. The large plant in the background is almost ready to harvest!
T - And this stuff keeps giving and giving and giving leaves after harvests. We now have 8 big plants, and a couple of stragglers.

CUCUMBERS:
Y - What a difference a weak makes! I've counted 10 cucumbers growing and LOTS more flowers with potential.
T - They seem to like being strung up on our homemade twine lattice.

BEETS:
Y - Looking strong!
T - I moved and replanted 7 or 8, and boy they're looking GREAT! Greens for sauteing, and that sweet red root roasts like no other.

GREEN BEANS:
Y - We'll be eating a third meal of beans this week and I'll be picking some to take to the mountains. They are producing so many it's almost hard to keep up with harvesting them.
T - These Blue Lake plants are small and bushy, and don't need the lattice I put up. And the beans they give off are HUGE.

~Y&T