Lettuce and Spinach
July 20, 2013
Spinach - When your spinach starts to bolt like the picture below, pull the plant and harvest it. Then you plant another seed in its place
Cabbage Update
July 20, 2013
I can't believe how fast it grew. It actually looks like a cabbage! Only I could be amazed that a cabbage seed would actually grow a cabbage. LOL
Tom and Emma's Garden
July 19, 2013
This is Tom and Emma's garden. It's four times bigger than you can see from this picture.
May 25, 2013
Here's Tom
This is Emma! :)
June 2nd update - variety of things here
June 2, 2013
I'm being lazy and putting a bunch of pictures in one post - sorry
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| My husband working on my garden area |
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| Pepper planting time - Basil - and Cilantro |
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| Tomatoes straightened out. See my onions? |
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| Here's my cold weather box: Bok Choy, Peas, and a variety of lettuces |
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| Garden Box 2 - Here's my celery, eggplant, and my tiny cabbages that should be much bigger! |
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| Bought a whisky barrel from the Rocky Mountain Barrel Company I was lucky enough to get two quarts of Breckenridge Whisky for free! |
Tomato Planting
Date: May 21, 2013
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| What I used to notch my garden so that I would have my square-foot grid: Twine, tape measurerer, pencil, and a big saw |
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| You can see how the plants started to bend up toward the sun |
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| Dug two trenches - pretty deep because my plants are so leggy |
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| Nice and deep! |
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| What I used to dig |
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| Nutrients I added to the trenches: leaves, bananas, and eggshells |
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| Egg shells: adds calcium - hope this helps with bottom end rot (BER). I got it last year and it's due to lack of calcium |
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| Bananas: adds potasium |
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| Leaves - adds carbon |
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| Put all the ingredients together plus added some of my compost - these plants should be happy :) |
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| How I placed my plants |
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| Close up - you can see how the roots are in front of the plant |
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| Here's where things went bad - while I had my plants lieing on their sides so they could reach upwards, we had a really hard rain storm that beat the tops of several of my plants off. Note to self: Check the rain forecast prior to setting your plants on their sides!....lesson learned. |
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| Poor, poor baby |
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| All planted |
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| Remember all the roots are in front so these plants were bent into an upright position. After a few days, they should naturally straighten out. |
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