Garden 2014

May, June, July...
My plot is a 300+ square feet area that I share with a ghost.

My garden area this year is... complicated.

Instead of the two single edge plots from last year, I joined forces for what I hoped would be more fertile ground.

Fertile, yes. Grass loves it.

In the picture above on the right you can see a square of dirt. That was where I first planted beets and greens in late spring. After several hot and humid thunderstorms, this area was a plush carpet of grassy weeds. Recently a friend wanted to plant something and didn't have space, so I let him rip it up and start over.

Two-thirds of the plot has plants and weeds waist high and higher. The back is lined with wild amaranth. Morning glory and bean vines dance through corn stalks, amaranth, sunflowers, tomatillos, cilantro and weeds. All wild. All going wild.

I'm feeling pretty zen about it.

Despite the disarray I should have tomatoes, tomatillos, and jalapenos from this plot, along with the many herbs I've been enjoying for a while now -- heavenly. And nasturtiums! Elsewhere in a small plot I have red cabbage, brussels sprouts, and more tomatoes.

But no significant harvesting yet. So to the farmer's market, tomorrow, I go...