Or Not.....

It still seems to be a better year overall for the garden, but things are going more slowly than we'd hoped. Except the beans -- we've had a bumper crop of beans, mostly the Dragon Tongue but plenty of Bush Lake as well! Banana peppers and lettuces have done fairly well, too. We've been getting lots of tomatoes but they haven't really ripened yet -- and we're having an issue with worms,which I may have mentioned before.

Progress!

I don't want to jinx things, but it certainly seems as if the garden is growing much better this year than last. The straw hasn't totally kept the weeds at bay, but there are definitely fewer than we had last year, so it's more manageable. Plus the straw keeps the ground from becoming hard and compacted, so what weeds we do get are easier to pull.

Community Garden, Year Two

OK, so we sucked weren't great at updating the blog last year. The garden wasn't that great either, in fairness -- too much rain and too little hot. The only 'good' thing was that everyone else at the community garden said it was their worst year ever, so we didn't feel quite as bad about our own dismal yields. So, we're trying it again this year, and hopefully things will go better this time! We did move to a new plot area, on a bit of higher ground, and we opted for two plots rather than just one -- not only to spread out a bit, but because I wanted to have a little seating area so that we could sit and relax, or read, or listen to tunes, or whatever for a bit after tending to the garden. Of course with busy schedules and demands from husband, kid, and/or dog, who knows how much leisure time we'll really have (but they don't have to know watering only takes 15 minutes and not 45, right?).