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May 6, 2008


the garden, week one
posted by soe 12:43 am

I’m going to be mean and put off my Sheep and Wool Show and Tell until tomorrow.

Instead, I offer you Week One photos from my garden plot:

This is our gigantic sage plant, the lone holdout from the previous owner of our community garden plot. Believe it or not, the week before, when I was turning over the garden, I chopped a third of the plant off. (By the way, does anyone local need sage? Rudi and I are drowning in it.)

Sage, Year 2

I am a lazy gardener. If I can get away with putting pre-bought plants into my garden, I will. Last year, my broccoli and lettuce plants did remarkably well, and, not being entirely devoid of sense, I figured I ought to buy some more for Year 2. Here they are in the ground and looking fine.

Broccoli SeedlingsLittle Lettuces

A week is not a lot of time in the grand scheme of things. But in terms of a seed, it’s a lifetime. My peas and beans were already sending up little shoots after a mere week. Aren’t they adorable?

Peek-a-BooGrowth Spurt

During Week 1, I added more beans and peas to my tee-pee trellis. Instead of following the directions on the seed packets, as I did last year (which netted me a small, if sincere, crop of peas), I opted this year to just plant them all in a confined area and see what happened. If nothing else, this ought to prevent me from accidentally pulling up the bean vines when I mistake them for early-stage Virginia Creeper.

Garden Teepee

(As you might guess from the above shot, I waited until it was raining to head to the garden. I swear it wasn’t raining as I was packing up to head over. In fact, I suspect the very first drops of mist touched down as I reached street level outside the Burrow. But by the time I was done in the garden, it was definitely coming down at a consistent drizzle.)

I also planted zucchini and yellow squash seeds. Again, I planted more of them this year than I did last year, when I was warned that I didn’t want to be overrun by squash. While that’s a fair warning, I can’t think that the half dozen squash I did pick last year was anything close to being an overwhelming harvest.

I leave you with this shot. Violets are one of my three favorite flowers. Mia thought I was crazy last year when I announced that Rudi and I had dug a bunch of them up from around the garden and replanted them in the back corner of the garden. But doesn’t it just look so lovely there?


My Violets

Category: garden. There is/are 3 Comments.



Love your garden! We use teepees for our beans too; such a great thing – we have only ever had middlin’ success with peas; I know I am missing something. I love violets and yours are so lovely…the colour is gorgeous!

Comment by Cynthia 05.06.08 @ 4:39 pm

Ohhh, a garden report! Everything looks very lush and bug free. I hope that continues for you!

Did you finish your purple project? Can’t wait to see it. I’m working on my pink one, since I’ve been crabby this week too with work, and it’s one of those few things that seems to make me smile. 🙂

Comment by Debby 05.06.08 @ 11:34 pm

the garden looks great! I am waiting for something to pick here!

Comment by Sarah 05.07.08 @ 5:34 pm