Oh My Garden! Part Two

     The garden is started! Ahhh! It took most of the day last Sunday (we had to break to go buy more dirt 😒 shouldn't that stuff be free?!) but 7 pallets are filled and ready to go. We transplanted zucchini, cucumbers, (some) broccoli, and green oak lettuce. One week later and the zucchini are going strong, the cucumbers are hanging in there, a few broccoli are still alive, and the lettuce is M.I.A. I'm not sure if it shriveled up and died or if one of our many neighborhood rabbits feasted on it. It was such a nice day out today so I decided to replenish the broccoli crop (FYI, don't start ALL the seeds in the packet when there are 5 million. You will end up with 5 1/2 million plants. Although this ended up being a good thing since the first round petered out). The green leaf lettuce was looking more lettucey so I decided it was probably ready to go outside. We'll see if it becomes a rabbit delicacy.

     I felt like the egg cartons were inhibiting the plants' ability to grow bigger so I transplanted the tomatoes and another lettuce (I can't remember which one, there were five to begin with!) into bigger pots and put them back on my "sun" table. I don't trust that they're quite big enough to survive outside yet so I'm gonna give them another week or so. I can't risk losing the tomato plants, we have lots of canning plans later this year and we are sauce loving people!

    I started some Mexican sunflower seeds along with all the veggies and they were starting to look strong so I also transplanted them today. I hoed a small area along the back of our building, about a foot and a half wide, (using the grass I dug up to fill a hole in our yard that is a HUGE pain in the ...to mow around) and then topped it with organic garden soil. Because they need so much room between them I was only able to plant five flowers. There were about three more that seemed viable and I'm saving them in case any of the transplanted ones need replaced. What I like about this little garden space so much is that I got to use a couple of branches from our tree that were cut out around five years ago and have been lying in a nuisance spot ever since. The person who cut them *cough cough* thought they would decompose much faster, apparently. Now they won't scratch me when I mow the bottom of our yard, or seem like a really great place for a snake to nap 😳

Until next time!