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Square Foot Garden (Spring Garden)

 

I planted my spring garden on April 5th and I have to say it was so great to be gardening in the 75 degree weather we had that weekend. I even got a sunburn on the back of my neck from gardening.....one day I will remember that I don't have long hair. Anyways, In my square foot garden I planted brussel sprouts, chard, beets, radish, arugula, and lots of different types of lettuce. I did the radish and beets by seed and everything else is from starts. I checked it today and my radishes are already sprouting....very exciting.

 

I had quite a few herbs come back and I planted some extra parsley, sage, thyme, and garlic chives. I have another container like this that I filled with more lettuce. I harvest the leaves as they grow instead of the head of lettuce, so you can plant it very closely.

 

More lettuce and some Kale. This kale is supposed to get 2 feet tall, so I think it will look very nice on my deck. I also planted some bok choy in a pot on the deck.

I hope I can meet my goal of having a 3 season garden this year. I can't believe summer planting is just around the corner.

PS-I got a 96% on my gardening test, so that means I have a Certificate in Home Horticulture. Pretty fancy....I know :)

Square Foot Garden Update

  

I was out of town for a week and came back to my bounty....okay.....that may be an overstatement.  I had a ton of lemon cucumbers and finally got some roma tomatoes that did not have blossom end rot. I also got a good amount of sun gold tomatoes and somehow managed to grow the worlds smallest walla walla sweet onions, but I ate them and they were good.

I am hoping my tomatoes will continue to ripen and my eggplant and pepper are doing pretty well. I need to get motivated this week and get some fall crops planted.

Square Foot Gardening Update

   

My name is Jenny and I have blossom end rot. Luckily, this only happened to my Roma tomatoes and it can be fixed. It is caused by a cool spring and a calcium deficiency. It usually only affects the first fruit of the season. It was a bummer to cut off 20 tomatoes, but I am hoping it will make a comeback.

Other than that things are looking great. I do have another tomato without any fruit, but it has a ton of blooms. My eggplant, peppers, and cucumbers are getting big and I can't wait to start harvesting!

Liz's Garden

Liz and Rowan in the garden

Last year I drew up a landscaping plan for Liz's yard and it was completely out of scale and ridiculous, but she used some of my ideas and most importantly added her own personal style and it looks great!She has had a few mishaps this year with her neighbors and gardener who are really into killing plants that they think are weeds, but other than that it seems to be going well. Here are some pictures of her yard.

Lovely seating area

Rose garden

Tomatoes.....I love the cages that she made

Potting bench that doubles as a sideboard during parties

Update:Square Foot Garden

 

It has been about one month since I last posted pictures of my garden and I cannot believe how big it is getting! I installed 4 foot tall trellises and had no idea that my tomatoes would be surpassing them this early in the season. I did eat my first sun gold tomato and it was so good. I can't wait for the rest of them to start getting ripe. Here are a couple of up close pictures of my vegetables....because I am sure you are just so interested! :)


Sun Gold Tomatoes


Worlds smallest yellow pepper....so small it hasn't even turned yellow yet

IlseMarie's Garden

IlseMarie's first harvest of the year

IlseMarie and Clint have been working very hard on their yard this year to get it back into tip top shape after their renters had let the yard go while they were in Germany for three years. I have been talking IlseMarie's ear off about square foot gardening, so she decided to give it a shot and it looks great! Here are some more pictures of her garden.

Check out the squash plant


See how much you can grow in a 4 x 4 space!


Beautiful Clematis

Aunt Carol's Garden

 
Aunt Carol's Vegetable Garden

One of my favorite things to do is check out other peoples gardens....yes I need to get a life. :) Aunt Carol has lived in her house for 30 years and has a really big yard and a creek that runs down one side of her property. I just love her yard and here are some pictures.


Giant group of Dahlias

Rose garden

Largest Hosta EVER!

The girls seriously discussing tree trimming

The girls seriously discussing who knows what

Square Foot Gardening

As many of you know, I have been completely obsessed with my square foot garden. I am even in a book club that reads really interesting and cool books, but I choose to read books about square foot gardening (it is actually a very interesting book and I couldn't put it down...for reals) I planted my garden on 5/18 and here is what it looked like:

I planted lettuce, herbs (basil, chive, cilantro, dill, rosemary, thyme, oregano, parsley), tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, jalapeno peppers, bell peppers, carrots, and radishes. I also installed some trellises (with the help of my lovely handyman Aaron) over the weekend. Here is what my garden looks like now....just a month later

One of my tomatoes even has little tiny tomatoes on it already! Yes...I am a total nerd

Why I Love Gardening.....

Because I can walk outside and put together a great bouquet in 5 minutes flat.....Just think what I could do if I actually had some flower arranging skills.