Gardening- the 3rd update.

Ok, I left off a few days ago with where we were in May, and now here we have what things were looking like last month in mid June. It's totally starting to look like a real backyard! You can see we harvested our potatoes in the back and then finally cleaned up the center area a bit. We're sectioning off the back half of the center area for some new foods yet TBD.


Our squash started taking over the sidewalk by this point. Looking at these amazes me every time. That started as a seed! That's crazy! I know that is a basic life lesson, but still, that was just a SEED.


And our bed of leafy greens was pretty magnificent at this point, if I do say so myself. The smaller stuff in the front is more newly planted Kale.


The blueberries are getting bigger and bluer, and here is a close-up of our nifty hand-made fence. They sell these things pre-made for like $2 more than making it but Nate was set on making a fence. I do have to say, despite a lot more time, and maybe one or two breakdowns concerning Nate's daddy issues, it was a much nicer fence than those other ones :)


On the right hand side, we have the very pretty beginnings of some blackberries, and on the left we the the pretty endings of a shallot that I think we waited too long to harvest.



Ok, and now, finally we get to the present- July. We did a mad rush of getting things "finished" the week before 4th of July so we could host a little bbq, and while there is still lots left to do, it came together quite nicely. I unfortunately forgot to take any pictures during our party, but here's a few of hanging out with my fellow farmers afterward. You can kinda see how we put a little strip of grass in under the hammock and then created a social area with the little pebbled oval.






Tatanka is pretty sure this picture falls under the "life imitating art" side of the argument.








And finally, a little vegetable check-in: squash are growing, and we need to figure out how to get rid of all the bugs eating our lettuces.



The next day I finished up planting some more moss. I love moss; it's so satisfying just to push my hand down on it over and over again.


Courtney and Shawn took control of the squash plant and redirected it from the sidewalk to the fence.


And you can see some of the backyard furniture we bought that day from a lady on craigslist.


And here you can see our garden as of this morning! Unfortunately our grass is allready not looking good due to my precious dogs :( Most of our greens were going to seed so we harvested those, as well as the peas, and, uh. . . I guess that's all for now.