How does your garden grow?

Here’s a pic of the garden, and one of the four foot square beds, which is planted in 16 individual square feet. In this photo there are 16 varies lettuce plants, 32 onions, radishs, 2 collard plants, 3 kale plants, 9 arugula plants, a mix of 16 parsley and cilantro plants, 4 marigolds, and 1 green cabbage plant. Tiny little plot, huge amount of food. :o}

Salad anyone? My spinach bolted w/ in a day and I didn’t catch it, so I pulled all of it out and stripped the leaves to freeze for smoothies. I decided that the other lettuces couldn’t be far behind, so I harvested quite a few leaves off each plant: arugula, dandelion, red leaf, some curly leafed, simpson bibb, and a couple others that I can’t think the name of. To that I added fresh asparagus, radishes, and green onions, and some tomatoes, avos, and sunny seeds from the store. There’s a two day salad there—for at least 2 people!!

Later, Rich helped me did a long bed for all the squash babies that need a homes. 13 plants!! We'll be in squash heaven. Oh, and Rowan helped too. She would get mad if we didn’t leave clods of excavated sod for her to put on the tarp. She was so funny about it!! And she would say ‘Thank you’ whenever we left a clump for her.

Tristen is off to his dad’s for 3 weeks, then home for a short visit, and back again for 2 more weeks. Though Rowan and Rich are here, the house seems empty at night. The ghosts have also been more active of late. Wonder if they miss him too.

Here’s Ro-Ro’s menu for yesterday:

Green smoothie w/ spinach, apples, bananas, kelp

cherry tomatoes with chia seeds

Chocolate Bliss shake

banana

salad as described above w/ ACV dressing (apple cider vinegar, raw honey, extra-virgin olive oil)

leftover smoothie

dried coconut and blueberries

more salad

~~~Sharilyn and Rowan