Quote Originally Posted by tulip View Post
Hey Lisa, I take what I can get
Don't we all.

My old tiny garden continues to churn out MASSIVE amounts of lettuce- both red and green leaf lettuce and wonderful romaine. (Thanks again Tulip, for urging me to jam more plantings in there). We're eating big salads every day and I'm giving lots of lettuce to friends as well. I get occasional radishes, and plenty of Swiss chard. Tomatoes are still green, scallions and string beans are growing quite well.

As for the new big garden- the fence is supposed to *finally* be installed (3 1/2 l-o-n-g weeks after putting in the garden) during this weekend and hopefully will be finished by Monday afternoon. I'm so hepped about it!
Meanwhile, I did sow lots of seed 2 weeks ago, most of which are all little 2" high green rows now- so cute! I'm very lucky no rabbits or deer have discovered them. Hopefully they'll survive another two nights until the fence is up. After the fence is up we can finally finish mulching up the paths and perimeter, and I'll no longer be walking in trenches around the beds.

This morning I did the second large succession sowing (2 weeks after the first). It included additional small sowings of radish, spinach, bokchoy, various lettuces, kohlrabi, turnips,chard, carrots, cilantro, bunching onions and scallions, and beets.
A third and fourth sowing in August will include only more cool-tolerant fast growing Fall crops like spinach, radish, turnips, beets, and lettuce.

This afternoon we go play music at our town's farmer's market, and eat Magdalena's wonderful fresh made Mexican burritos for dinner there at the market. It's now our Friday tradition. We play the music voluntarily, but we do get to take home a few fresh organic veggies as a thank you from one of the vendors.