Garden(ia)

Each day, my garden grows.

The volunteer parsley, tomatillos, tomatoes, potatoes, and daikon radishes are up and thriving. So is the crab grass. I do my best to keep that in check, but there's more grass than vegetables at this point. Hoping that will change soon.

The patch of daikon is crowding out whatever grass is growing between the radishes, and thankfully what is there is weak.

I'm hoping that the melons, zucchinis, pumpkins and watermelons will make the grass and weeds feel unwelcome...and shadowed from the sun and rain. They are slow to sprout and even slower to spread out right now, but in another month I won't be able to find my way between the now fledgeling plants.

Beans, marigolds, spinach, chard and carrots have sprouted from seeds. I think I saw a cabbage sprout yesterday, too!

I'm hoping that the four, or is it five, tomato seed varieties I've scattered on the garden will germinate before the end of the summer. Some of them take months to fruit, so they'd better get moving.

My garden methodology is to scatter seeds every week or two so that there will be a rolling harvest throughout the summer and into the fall and winter. I also inspect the garden at least once per day and pull as many weeds as I can. It's not so hard when you keep it up. If I go a few days, though, especially if there's been rain, I'm inundated with garden chores. At that point, I'm not only dealing with the garden, but the yard and getting some actual mowing done.

Looking forward to weeding less and enjoying the fruits of my labor!