Gardening- the second installment

I had intentions of posting about our garden's progress much more often, but you know how those go . . . so we left off with the first six weeks or so back in March.


And here we have what was going on in April- you can see things are really starting to grow, and isn't my hammock dreamy!


Shawn thinks so too.


The squash grew fastest (and biggest, as you'll soon see).


. . . although, the artichokes are a close second. I remember back in April when I thought this was ginormous.

Unfortunately, we read the package wrong and planted them 4 inches apart not 4 feet apart. (Reminds me of the time in college when I took Vivarin wrong- it apparently said 'one every 4-6 hours' not '4 every 6 hours'). Anyway, makes a lot of sense now that we are seeing how big they get

And the potatoes. I feel kinda dumb but I never before realized that they were a green plant. I just thought everything happened under ground. But look at them- they're all green and leafy and above ground! (the red ones blossomed much quicker than the yellow ones)


This is our leafy green bed right as it was starting to grow. Then the right side is our raspberry bush. Lots more leaves than when we first planted it a month earlier!


And our peas.


Our lemon tree lost all it's leaves in a few severe wind storms we had back in the beginning of April, but it still looked promising here, like maybe it would do something, and maybe wasn't completely dead. . . but now is sorta a different story.


We had to put this net-and-gate contraption up to keep Nate out.


The first signs of a blueberry and some of the green onions just starting to mature.


And here we have Farmers Nate, Shawn, and Courtney, not really being all that mature.










By the way, Farmer Shawn, he should probably win the "farmer with the most improved attitude" award. For being the least excited of the group about this project, he has certainly become quite dedicated to the job!



Ok, next. Here is what things looked like in mid May.


The yellow potatoes have now outgrown the red ones.


Strawberry, beet, and squash.


pretty peas.


Look at those artichokes- all the way up to Shawn's waist!




Courtney was super excited to discover these squash blossoms.


The bed of leafy greens starting to fill out.


red chard.


The Green Onions and the Butterhead Lettuce- ready to be eaten!


So this was a very exciting moment- it was the first time we harvested anything from our garden!!




We walked stuff up to the kitchen and made tofu Terriyaki lettuce wraps. And of course commented over and over again about how good the lettuce and green onions were.



I still have 2 more months to bring you up to speed on but this post is getting awfully long, so I'll do it tomorrow.