Time Travel: Garden Overgrown

Time Travel: Life got a bit away from me this summer. I have been working on finishing up school, and with the addition of my lovely almost full time job, I haven't much time for anything else. Posts with the Time Travel disclosure were posted well after I intended to post them. Sorry!

This summer, I managed to keep my garden watered, but not much else. The lettuce quickly took over, and made my little plot look like a wild weed patch.

I spent some time and pulled it all up. It would have been nice to get more salads out of it (though we certainly ate plenty of salads), but once it flowers, it starts to taste bitter.

Garden Spoils!

Well, there was enough lettuce growth that I felt comfortable taking some for dinner tonight. Some leaves showed some bite marks, but that is the cost of organic growing, hmm? All in all, it was exciting to eat what I'd grown, and boy was it delicious!

Garden!

I started a garden! I'm really excited about it, and I've enjoyed variably telling Jer that I want to go play in the dirt/cow poop and watching him shake his head because he knows what a germaphobe I am. Guys, I'm seriously a huge GERMAPHOBE. Capital letters totally a must. 

Anyway, Here's my garden as it looked this morning when I was done with it. I purchased tomato plants that someone else had started inside because I did not, and relocated a few strawberry plants that grew on their own from upstairs neighbor dude's garden last year. He moved out, I poached the plot.

I also planted broccoli, butternut squash, lettuce (3 kinds!), and carrots (3 kinds!). Did I mention I'm really excited? I'm really excited! The wood is for me to stand on, because it bothered me that I kept compacting the soil when I stepped in, so now I have something to stand on.

Also: I have no idea what I am doing.