It’s been about two months since we first planted our garden, and most of the veggies are looking really good. This first photo is after we planted our babies (we didn’t try to grow from seed this first time around). From front to back, we’ve got:
- Spinach (one row)
- Lettuce (one row)
- Arugula (one row, with a single lettuce plant on the left)
- Tomatoes (two plants, with marigolds on either end)
- Onions and leeks (one row of each, next to that big empty patch)
- Strawberries (on the other side of the empty patch)
- Parsley (two plants, with more marigolds)
After eight weeks, it’s really blown up. We’ve already harvested most of the arugula, and have been picking off spinach and lettuce leaves as we need them for salad. The parsley’s the only other plant that’s big enough to pull from, and it gives us more than we could possibly use. The photo below is from today (eight weeks in). Unfortunately, I took it from the other side, so the layout is reversed.
All in all, we’ve had incredible luck: no nasty bugs (save for the random aphid) or disease, and the ladybugs seem to love the plot. Our strawberries haven’t done too well, sadly. I think we let them dry out too much between watering for the first couple of weeks, and they never came back. We transplanted one to a container, and that guy just sprouted some green little berries in the last few days. The other problem we ran into was that the spinach kept burning. We solved that by propping a couple of screens over the plants to cut the sun, and now they seem to be thriving. Finally, we’ve pulled all but one arugula plant, which has bolted. We’ll try to collect the seeds, and maybe even resew them right back in the ground.