Garden Check-In

When I wrote the first post about my rookie garden, I didn't really believe it would actually grow.  I wanted to believe, but having killed too many houseplants, I was lacking a certain confidence. Now, look at it!

Yes, there are some things that likely won't make it. A tomato plant, probably, and those eggplants aren't looking too spry.  But the dill looks great, and most of the lettuces are coming along nicely.  I planted some salad bowl lettuces a few weeks before the garden, and they are rapidly approaching harvest. (Snipped a few leaves for small salads the other night - tasty!)

Based on my research, these should be "cut and come again" lettuces.  But just in case, I'm planning to plant a second round of seeds soon in more containers so we'll have fresh salads later into the summer.

My rose bush is doing well in its fourth (I think) year now. It's always at its best now, before Japanese beetle season (how I loathe those little buggers).

Are you gardening in a small space?  If so, you might enjoy this story from NPR's Science Friday interview of the Cheap Vegetable Gardener.  Happy planting!

Comments

[Erika G]

Just stopping by, looking for a garlic scape recipe I saw mentioned on Twitter (but never bookmarked!).

We used to have those stinkin' Japanese beetles and used the Japanese beetle catchers but they ended up attracting them more than get rid of them. The next year we ignored them and now they're (magically?) gone -- maybe it had something to do with the death of our treeling. If they came back I was going to try the milky spore -- have you tried it?

[Erika G]

Oh and I love your garden! :-)

[April F.]

Thanks Erika - I thought the beetle bags seemed to just attract more beetles too, but haven't tried much else. They weren't too bad last year (maybe something with the weather?), but I think they like the heat, so they're likely to be back in droves this year.

The garlic scape pesto recipe I posted on Twitter was part of the CSA newsletter I write each week for Summer Creek Farm. Here's a link that week's e-mail (feel free to subscribe - all are welcome, even if you aren't a member of our CSA). http://eepurl.com/zlBP

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