Raised beds garden update (Part 1)

The garden is now hitting its stride. There's not much to do these days besides water, weed, and blog.

Dogstreet Farm

This week, I started cutting the lettuce mixes to eat for lunch at work. I have also started sharing the green onions. I am certainly going to have to start bringing loads of this stuff with me to distribute at work. Maybe I'll also setup a jar where people can turn their money into compost ...

bibb lettuce, "deer tongue"

arugula

"wildfire" and "spicy mesclun" salad mixes

spinach, "double choice"

onions galore

Today, I sowed two more strips of salad mixes under the cucumber trellis for mix summer. I also sowed more green onions between the existing lettuce strips. I am trying to maintain a more continual harvest this year by doing succession planting.

The San Marzano tomatoes (the back corners) are growing like crazy. They even started flowering this week. The Celebrity tomatoes are growing well now too, especially since I have been fertilizing these guys with shrimp shells. Tomatoes just love calcium, although I haven't tried using Tums as a fertilizer as my friend Jeff has suggested. I'd much rather cook myself shrimp and crabs than buy a bottle of antacid.

pasta sauce in the making

Italian sweet basil

Thai basil, "Red Rubin"