Finally! A big carrot! This one gre on the shady end of the garden. I ate it with pesto made from the basil in the garden.

Loosing the battle for tomato to the squrriels. The onion looks nice though. The basil is coming in great!

Today's pic shows pepper plants planted yesterday and cucumber plants and zucchini plants planted today. We took out the spinach.

Huge tomato plants from Steve,which had been waiting in pots in the garden for a week are finally in the ground (on Monday). Wish them luck!

The tomato plants are the ones tied up with blue flagging tape. The peas and green beans are starting to come in and they taste fantastic! We've cooked and eaten most of the radishes, as well as their greens. We still have a few greens and radishes in the fridge. We pulled up one of our experimental onions today. It seems good, but we will keep you updated.

This is what a bolting radish looks like. We'll try to save the seeds.

Huge potato plant!

Spinach?

Peas!

Green bean!

To Do List

1) Mulch in between plants

2) Fertilize plants (compost tea anyone?) http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/airwaste/wm/recycle/tea/tea1.htm

3) Lay down straw in strawberry patch

4) Possibly make a planter's yard stick? http://www.marthastewart.com/good-things/planters-yardstick?backto=true&backtourl=/photogallery/vegetable-garden-good-things#slide_12

5) Figure out how to save the spinach crop... :-/

To catch up....

Well...I have been quite busy at work so I haven't had time to blog. So, two weekends ago we planted a row of green beans, peas and a row of half green beans and half peas. Each row has 7 seeds. Nothing has shown up yet..but hopefully we will see something in another few days

Other than that, there has been little change in the garden. We have just done a little weeding and watering in the garden.

The spinach is not doing well. It looks like some sort of insect has been having its lunch on our baby leaves. Some of them seem ok but we need to figure out what to do about the bugs. It looks like the bugs are just eating thin curvy lines in some of the leaves. I think I may go to Primex (our local nursery) and ask them what they think. I have seen similar patterns on rose leaves. For that, I made a solution of water with Cayenne pepper. The only problem is that you have to reapply every time the plant gets wet. I want to avoid the insecticidal soap (organic) but if many more leaves become damaged, I guess we will have no other choice.

The radishes are doing really well. I hope that we can harvest them in another week or two. The onions and leeks have picked up and are looking good. Only one potato sprout has popped up. Once it did come up, it has been growing like crazy. I hope that we will get several potatoes out of that one! I don't think carrots have ever grown. You can see little plants popping up in the general area...but I think they are just weeds.

I'm concerned that some of the seeds I've sprouted indoors aren't getting enough light. Here they are on a field trip to the front yard for some sunlight.

This is our current garden: carrots, radishes, leeks, onions, potatoes and spinach. The plants that are growing from seeds are the carrots, radishes and the last four rows of spinach.

We planted leeks, onions and spinach that we bought at Primex today for $9. We also planted two onions (the first two on the row) and three potato eyes that we never ate and that were beginning to sprout. We also planted four rows of spinach seeds.

Last weekend, we planted carrots and radishes. The radishes have already started appearing!

We still have several weeks until the threat of frost is gone. All of these plants will tolerate the frost (the spinach will love it!). Once the frost threat is gone, all of the vegetables will be ready, or almost ready to harvest. Then will come the summer crops...peas, green beans, tomatoes, lettuce, eggplant, zucchini, cabbage, bell peppers and basil. Any suggestions welcome!!!

Shadow admiring our freshly planted onions, leeks, potatoes and spinach.

Last weekend - April 10th and 11th - We put in the fence and planted radishes and carrots

Two girls, two dogs, one garden....who will come out victorious?

Julia and I have started our first vegertable garden. We have limited knowledge and limited supplies; but with the help(?) of our dogs Shadow and Cooper, we will try to feed ourselves the old fashion way...by growing it ourselves.