Saturday, May 30, 2009

a garden tour

Last weekend, we got our raised beds loaded up with a truckload of compost, a truckload of topsoil (which ended up being more clay), and bagged topsoil. We mixed it all up and got the plants put in them on Monday.


These two beds look a big empty because they have a lot of tomato plants in them. If they actually grow big enough to have tomatoes, they will need plenty of room.


Nathan's class at school started some lima beans in bags in the window. We planted four of them in our garden.


When we picked out seeds to plant, Caroline picked radishes. Does anybody know of any way to eat radishes other than sliced in a salad?


Our other bed is in the shade a good bit, so we planted some of the colder weather plants there.


Here are the lettuce plants. As you can see, there are multiple plants in each spot (for all the veggies). This weekend, I plan to thin them to one per spot.


And here are the carrots. There are also broccoli plants in both beds, but I didn't manage to get a picture of them. And I think they are the ones least likely to succeed.


I don't know if any of these will grow into something edible or not, but it will be an interesting experiment on whether or not we can grow veggies from seeds.

1 comment:

Elizabeth A. said...

I think I've heard harvesting broccoli before it "looks" ready is the trick, something about it bolting really fast.

That's quite the gardening endeavor. Hope it works out and y'all get some of this Tennessee rain.