Squash Bounty

Rachel's herb garden is all grown up

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July 9th

This was the week everything started to go absolutely nuts!

June 25th

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That's not a radish, this is a radish

The radish on the right is a normal sized radish. The radish on the left is a Rachel and Matt are the shiznit sized radish. We were finally fortunate to have some sunshine a couple days ago to help all of our little plants out. They already look a lot happier. We added a bunch of cool flowers into Rachel's box to make it look that much more beautiful. The peppers are pretty stunted but everything else is looking pretty good now. The spinach is growing after a second germinated batch of seeds were thrown in. The tomatoes are short and bushy, but happy. Brusselsprout and zucchini are on the edge of going crazy.

The reveal

Well after almost two weeks of October weather the sun came out. All of our plants are very confused, it has been horrible pepper and tomato weather. We hope that everybody will be happy soon and start growing again. Our peppers are already bearing fruit, crazy little guys don't know what they are doing. We have been eating radishes like crazy and ready to start harvesting some lettuce soon. We now have the woman's touch that we needed, with Rachel's idea to put an herb and strawberry box in the middle of the plot so it looks more like a garden then a farm. The all-star for the week is our purple brussel sprout bush (back left) which has tripled in size and looks very healthy. The slugs seem to have slowed down on their eating, which is a relief. The last confusing disappointment was after planting a whole row of spinach, only one plant is alive and healthy, so I put in another row of seeds this week.

Almost complete!

Rachel got home on Friday after driving home 1300! And we finally were able to put in the last of our vegetables and add the woman's touch this garden neede. We brainstormed together to put a miniature raised bed within the raised bed for Rachel's flowers, herbs, and 4 kinds of strawberries (hopefully we will get that in there this week). We wanted to make it look a little bit more like a garden than a farm.

Planting!

Finally got some sunshine after a week of rain so that we could get the garden really started. My good friend Pete and his girlfriend Tamara came over to help out as substitutes until Rachel comes home in a few weeks! We added some compost, fertizlier, and a little extra soil. Did a final till and some "rock harvesting." Then it was finally time to plant. We planted: spinach, double colored Amaranth, some lettuce mixtures, multi-colored silverbeets, 4 types of carrots, beets, radishes, snow snap peas, and pole green beans. I think that's it. Let the growing begin!

Cleaning it all up

A little more, actually a lot more weeding, to make some clean borders and it's starting to look like a pretty fancy piece of dirt (I know it's soil)! Hopefully it will stop raining soon so I can throw in the compost and fertilizer and then finally some seeds! (Note the difference of the new and improved wide trail on the side of the plot)

Framing the Garden

My dad came in to town today and I thought I would put him to work. We created a frame for our garden to get rid of the slope and to make it look sharp and clean. Doesn't look too pretty here but, it's gonna be so sweet. Next week fertilizer and the final till before beginning to plant.

Our Dirt!

We received our plot on April 26. 200 square feet in the middle of Magnuson Park in the community P-Patch. Lucky us it even came with 200 square feet of weeds. After a lot of sweat and advice from our neighbor chuck about how to use a tiller this is what it looks like; beautiful beautiful organic dirt, but it's our organic dirt.