Garden update

As you may recall, we expanded our garden this year. Last year was our first attempt at planting veggies and we had success. It was also a learning lesson. For our first garden I picked things I like and some I thought would be fun to grow. We had a couple of tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, peas, strawberries, peppers ... and the odder (not successful) choices were artichokes, watermelon, onion, and broccoli.

For our second, doubled-in-size garden, I tried to plant more things that will actually grow in this climate. We have the standard stuff from last year and I've added: carrots, green onions, beets, chard, zuchcini, chives, lettuce, dill, parsley, shallots, soybeans, eggplant, and some other herbs. Many of these were started from seeds! I planted 12 tomatoes seeds hoping for 4 to make it to maturity -- I've got 11 in the garden. If they actually produce tomatoes, I'm screwed! Same with the zuchcini -- I was warned by Koji's Kitchen to only plant 1 zuchcini. But, when you start them from seeds, you cannot be sure how many will make it. Turns out all 3 did. And to make matters worse I added a started herloom yellow squash today.

I still have lots to learn. Thanks to Koji's Kitchen for sharing her knowledge. It continues to be a fun project and I was giddy when we had our first salad from the garden last week! Here are a couple of updated photos. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I hope the CA clan gets a break from the heat soon! If not, pack your bags and come up and enjoy our garden!