How Does Your Garden Grow?

Ours is off to a good start; we've seen quite a bit of growth since I posted photos two weeks ago. That's very encouraging, since we're practicing by-the-seat-of-your-pants gardening.

I just snapped these pictures, so there's some morning shade, but they'll all get full sun for several hours before the day's done. And a good watering, although the soil is not nearly as dry as it looks.

This bed is the home to green beans, onions, radishes, very recently planted beets (they're just now coming up) and cucumbers.


The second bed is planted with zucchini (which, as expected, is growing more quickly than everything else; we'll have to add a piece of fencing for it to climb soon), rainbow chard, mixed lettuces, green bell peppers, and green leaf lettuce. You can also see one of our upside tomatoes in the foreground.


The third bed is growing spinach, banana peppers, collard greens and tomatoes.


Now that almost everything is well established, it's time to put down some kind of mulch. I probably won't be able to get to that until next week.

Finally, here's a grouping of pots on our deck: Two succulents (hens & chicks and everlasting), lavender, two kinds of thyme, basil, oregano and cilantro. Some of the herbs are doing much better than others.