How Does Your Garden Grow? Part Two

(This entry covers May 27 through June 7)

The following weekend, we hit Randazzo's for both flowers for our various homes and more veggies to finish up the family plot planting. Great selection and prices, but a total madhouse on a Sunday mid-morning! For various reasons we didn't get to the plot on Sunday, so Monday evening (after our Cardio-Boxing class) we headed over to finish up the planting. We got everything planted and ended up adding three more tomatoes (one Roma, two Big Rainbow), four cauliflower, four Brussels sprouts, nine sweet potatoes, four jalapeño peppers, three yellow wax beans, one watermelon, four more cucumber (the ones we had planted weren't faring very well), three chives, four Great Lakes head lettuce, four red leaf lettuce, four "unnamed" lettuce (had the red leaf tag but is definitely not red leaf lettuce -- we're hoping it's butter lettuce), four Swiss chard, four cabbages, several onion sets, and seeds for peas, Dragon beans, and a variety of carrots.

How Does Your Garden Grow? Part One

(This entry covers May 15 - May 26, 2013)

For Christmas 2012, my niece got my mom a space at the local community garden. (Well, OK, my niece was 3 years old, so really my sister got it, but Annabelle was keen on the idea!) It was always intended to be a family project, of course, and my mom took to telling her friends that she got "a family plot" for Christmas. (Clarifying, of course, after the deer-in-the-headlights looks and stutters and stammers as her friends grasped for a response, "no, a garden plot!". Mom likes to be clever. :) ) The name kind of took, so while we are considering an "official" name for the garden, I suspect we'll always also refer to it as the family plot.