My standing garden is finally starting to take hold. All the seads and starter plants started to look better than they did the day that came out of the packaging. Starting from the the top, I decided to plant six plants of kale, we like dinosaur Kale as you can see in the picture. If I use this with the cut and come again method and just take the leaves and let new one sprout I can get kale for most of the summer well into the late late fall.
I also went a little crazy trying to plant lettuce. Last year I managed to find lettuce seeds tape were the seeds are all in little pods in a cloth tape you planted and the seeds are already spaced out for you. This was super super handy, and I think I need to find it for next year. As you can see my lettuce is planted way way too close because those seeds were just too small for my meaty fingers to actually space out. Will clearly have to do some thinning once they get a bit more established. Enter return return
I planted as many of the sugar snap peas in and they could this year, as last year our production was lighter than we wanted and everyone in my family likes them. I was the only one who ever touched the green beans I planted last year, so I didn't plant any this year because I just felt it was too much work for too little return. Well I may not have as diverse of a crop this year as I did last year, I think it'll be eaten more which is all I really care about.
Once the lettuce comes in a bit more in a week or two, I think I'll be eating salads once or twice a day just to keep the lettuce from going seed and I will probably not be able to keep up with it. It is crazy to think about how much lettuce you can create you're so little work and effort, and how much that would cost you in the store.
As you can see I have a couple of self starting lettuce plants that are the biggest, these somehow came back from the seed that fell last year and started themselves well before I planted the rest. I find is quite amazing because I added a bunch of leaf mulch and mixed the whole bed up this spring turning it over, and these seeds still managed to find a way to sell propagate and start to grow. I think this also shows me that I need to plant much earlier in the season and that the lettuce can handle the freeze.
I'll have to take a picture of my other garden, and see what's coming up over there. I planted a lot of seeds but added wood mulch, and it looks like many of them decided not to come up. I may have to plant them later in June and hope I can harvest before the fall.
~senstless