Garden Update

Well for the past month or so are garden has been growing, some things better than others.

 

 See this? This is our larger raised bed. When we planted it, it was the only part of the backyard that got reliable sunlight. Now, the sun has become more angled through the fall and the front half of this bed never gets direct sunlight. Oops! Despite this, the carrots grow (at a snail's pace?). The broccoli and potatoes actually seem quite happy, I think their foliage got large enough that they still catch sunlight despite being in the front of the garden. Shallots and garlic also happy. Green beans and lettuce not so much. The peas are doing awesome and have grown past the top of the trellises. We started harvesting a few snow peas and the sugar snap have started flowering.

 The sugar snap peas also have the prettiest flowers! I would probably grow them even if they didn't produce food (ok not really because I haven't planted anything for just being pretty).

This is the smaller garden, which now gets the bulk of the sunlight. We harvested our first arugula salad a few weeks ago, realized that we do not like the taste of arugula and pulled it out. We replaced it with some swiss chard. The spinach, romaine, and mesclum are growing nicely. I just wish the worms didn't think the romaine (and broccoli) was so tasty! I sprayed a pepper solution on them hoping they will stop eating it. I have tried to plant more spinach but it doesn't seem to being sprouting. Maybe something is eating the seeds? Next I will try to start some indoors.

So far we've been lucky and have only had mild frosts so we've been able to spare our more vulnerable plants. I am hoping to give the potatoes as much time as possible to grow since I don't think they're going to reach their full potential size. Small potatoes. Oh well, we have decided this is an experiment anyway.