Earth Month

I've always enjoyed gardening, but I've never successfully grown anything-except my tulips do somehow come up every spring. Last year, Andrew and I decided we would start a vegetable garden in containers on our back deck. The only thing I actually got to harvest was lettuce.  But it was pretty good lettuce.
So this year, we are trying again.  I've bought 3 more gardening books because last year's selections, The Complete Guide to Vegetable Gardens and The Idiot's Guide to Vegetable Gardens, weren't helpful enough.
Two big changes we're making this year: 1) we will be planting in the ground instead of containers and 2) we planted seeds in starter packs and will be transplanting them outside later in the season.
We also are going to be making our own compost.  I'm considering this my Earth Month (March 22-April 22) project, along with finally getting recycling bins from City Hall. (I've just been saving all our recyclables in boxes and grocery bags since the beginning of the year)
The compost part scares me a little.  One of the books I bought is all about composting. It's called Compost. There's a whole chapter about the bugs you want to be in your compost. eeek...I do not like that part.  But what's even worse than that, you don't neccessarily want these bugs in your garden so you have to pick them out before you add the compost to your garden.  I told Andrew I will need heavy duty gloves and special garden tongs.  He doesn't understand why I need tongs.  He thinks if I have gloves on I should be able to just pick it up with my hands. This is going to be quite a challenge.
Here's a list of what we will be growing-we've added a few things from last year's selection.

 Tomato

  Pepper

  Lettuce

  Carrot

  Cucumber

  Squash

  Zuchinni

  Green Beans

  Onion

  Garlic

  Basil

  Cilantro



 

  



planting-March 21



greenhouses

growth-March 28