Growing Garden

I thought I would do a quick post on our garden as the last pictures I put up, we were still digging it. It is growing beautifully and we are already enjoying lots of veggies. These four plots are our vegetable gardens. We planted crook-neck squash and patty pan squash, brandywine tomatoes, cucumbers, bush beans, carrots, beets, dinosaur kale, spinach, black-seeded simpson lettuce, red cabbage and green cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. Our spinach has bolted already and so we pulled it and put in some late peas, both edible pod and the shucking kind. These are just coming up. We have had a lot of spinach, more lettuce than we can keep up with and a bumper crop of swiss chard. We are watching our cucumbers grow and I imagine the first harvest of those will start in the next week. I plan to pick the first of the crook-neck squash tomorrow. Our tomatoes are flowering and we see little fruits starting. It is all very exciting. Finn "helps" me water everyday, which is to say he pummels the plants with water and then switches and waters me. In this heat wave, he has begun to enjoy running through the spray as I water the plants. He has tried to help me weed, but unfortunately, he doesn't really distinguish between weeds and veggies. Thus, I have a very weedy garden, but it seems to be doing just fine. Next year, I am definitely mulching or haying to try to keep the weeds at bay.


Here is Finn helping to harvest some swiss chard:

And this is our herb garden. I love it as we can see it right out of our back windows from the kitchen. We hung up a bunch of bird feeders and it is lovely to watch the birds. The garden is still looking a bit sparse, but it is growing and I imagine I will fill in the bare spots over the next few years. We planted some columbines from Colorado and we put in oregano, sage, tarragon, lavender, thyme, dill, cilantro, parsley and a ton of mammoth basil and regular basil because I love pesto. We have peppermint and chamomile for teas. We also planted some chocolate mint and regular mint (mojitos, anyone?) We put in a bunch of garlic and a cherry tomato plant. The garden lays right next to Sean's first apple tree and when everything is grown up, I know it will be beautiful.