As I said in my earlier post, there were successes and failures in my endeavor to grow veggies this year. The mister and I played is safe and continued with our CSA membership, but decided to opt for the half share in lieu of the full share.
Some of the seeds I started inside were looking great, like the broccoli, pictured below:
Some of the other seeds (kale, cucumber, zucchini) called for a direct planting in the soil. So, around Mother's Day I got the seeds in the dirt and within three weeks, I already had some success. I decided to also look for some plants at the farmer's market and picked up some eggplant plants from an organic farmer. So, by memorial day, my garden looked like this:
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| Lettuce (up front), broccoli (middle), sunflower and eggplants (left and top), hints of kale (top right) |
We were able to set up a watering system by running the hose from the house (some 50') along the top of our fence line and connecting it to a diverter connected to two soaker hoses. Once in the AM and PM we watered the beds for 10 minutes.
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| Top row are cucumbers; bottom two rows are zucchini |
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| Carrots in the foreground |
As I said before, I had some failures in this process. My tomatoes that I started from seed did not transplant well and died, so I bought 5 tomato plants from a farmer at the
Phoenixville Farmer's Market. My broccoli transplanted well, gave me lots of green leaves, but never delivered on the florets.
Within a few weeks I was harvesting food and the garden was thriving.
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| Before (upper) and after (lower) |
In my next post, I'll give you the rundown of everything we harvested this year.
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