Saturday, May 8, 2010

An update on the garden

The first cycle of everything has been planted and is sprouting like crazy. In my quest to see if I can grow all of my own food, I ended up planting:

peas
cucumbers
string beans
melons
squash
soybeans
micro greens
beets
carrots
bell peppers
poblano chiles
fractal-like cauliflower
2 different lettuces
4 different heirloom tomatoes
cilantro
basil
scallions
some edible flowers as well as
rosemary
lavender
peonies
lily of the valley
hollyhock
and wildflowers to bring bees and hummingbirds.

These pictures were taken on May 1st.



2 comments:

  1. How is your gardening going? I started my first organic raised bed garden this year and am interested in seeing how others are taking to this strange NW growing season. (This year has been so off from normal weather.) I'm in the Tacoma area. I've spent the last three hours reading your entire blog and have really enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing!

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  2. So, I'm not sure if you are reading these comments anymore, but I am currently trying to decide how to finish the douglas fir floors we just installed in our (not so tiny) house. It appears you never got around to posting part 2 of 2 on the no-VOC floor finishing question (from May 2009)!

    Sorry for the off-topic comment, but what did you end up using for a finish?

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