My Crazy Edibles Garden

This is my crazy edibles garden. I call it crazy because it is incredibly informal. I was very eager to get things growing this season and would plant some seeds and buy a few plants every week or so, and as I kept adding things I just put them wherever they would fit.

We had a few nights with frost warnings and temps in the mid 30's, it seems to have caused issues with some things but others are fine. Just this morning, I saw that the ambrosia plant I thought I might need to replace, has all of the sudden started growing.

The first things I seeded were lettuces, broccoli and beets. We have harvested most of the lettuces and they were fantastic. I will always grow lettuce in my garden for now on. Although I hear it's hard to grow in the height of the summer, so I will try and seed some more in September for a fall harvest. The broccoli and beets look good, but I don't really know what to expect of them, this is also a first for me this year.

Mr. Max the Garden Cat waiting for a few snips of catnip

One of my garden favorites is the tomato. I have 5 plants this year, each a different variety. I love the taste of homegrown tomatoes, so I can't wait until these start producing! I am hoping for an abundance so I can put some away in the freezer for pasta sauce this winter. I also have a two pepper plants, one bell and one jalapeno. I put these in before the two frost warning nights and they are still very small. I am not sure if they suffered damage from the low temperatures or if they aren't in dry enough soil. The jalapeno plant has one little pepper on it, so maybe it just hasn't been hot enough, long enough for them to really start growing.

Ariel view of the tomatoes

This is a new garden and I need to figure out how it works. I can tell that the area where I put the herbs, which is very close to the peppers, holds water. Of course, where I need it dry, it's wet. Some of the herbs may need replacing. I moved a few second year parsley plants from other areas in the yard and they just want to go to seed, no real growth happening. The basil is also not doing so well. I need an abundance of both of these herbs for cooking this summer. I'll put a few new ones in in another section and see how they do.

This is how the garden started earlier this year. I tilled out an area around the deck. I had some old edging stones from the garden that used to be where the deck is now, so I used them them to map out the edibles garden area. The long area on the side of the garden is what I call the cutting garden, I'll talk about that garden on another day.