Garden update

We are fortunate enough to have a garden plot at our current apartment. With surprisingly little work and money on our part, it's been producing some tasty vegetables.

The lettuce (right) has been the most impressive crop of the bunch. We've had big, fresh salads for ten days now and it's still going strong with just one sowing. Those are potatoes on the left, I think.

The spinach has been bountiful too. Those are carrots beneath it. I hope they get big enough to eat before we move in a month.


I planted some cilantro late last summer, just for kicks, and it came up again this spring. This guy bolted, unfortunately. I didn't buy the fancy slow bolting variety...I suppose you get what you pay for with seeds. Still, the leaves on this bolted plant are super flavorful and less tough than regular cilantro, so I'm not complaining.


Here's some more cilantro I planted this spring that hasn't bolted (yet.)


This is our communal herb plot that has gone totally crazy after the last few weeks of rain. There's spearmint, mint, sage, chives, dill, and tyme. The mint is doing the best, right in time for mojito season.


Because we're having such an awesome experience with gardening so far, we had to figure out how to keep at it at our new condo, which doesn't have a lawn for a garden. We decided to plant a bunch of containers yesterday, which will go on our patio. I hope they will be as, if not more, successful than our traditional garden. We planted four varieties of heirloom lettuce, spinach, three varieties of heirloom carrots, easter egg radishes, heirloom scallions, candy cane beets, cilantro, and three varieties of hot peppers. I caught a squirrel-cat digging in there this morning, hence the repurposed screen. Fingers are crossed for a late summer harvest!!