Garden at One Week (May 26, 2013)

Here's how the garden looks at one week -- all of the seedlings are planted. For this year's experiment, we planted a lot of kale, lettuce, collard greens and peppers. We also planted one broccoli plant just to see what would happen. Then, we added in some marigolds to help keep the pests away.

The kale is already growing! And so is the lettuce.

Fully planted. Now, we wait.

Honey, I have an idea.

That's pretty much how it started. Six weeks ago, I had an idea for how to grow a bigger vegetable garden in our small city lot. So, we did a little research on square foot gardening, picked out a raised garden bed and headed to the local nursery for seedlings.

Over the last three years, we'd done a small amount of gardening. We had what I would consider a primarily decorative raised bed in which we'd grown some herbs, tomatoes and peppers. So, we're pretty much novices. And we consider this year's expansion one really big experiment. I'm writing this blog so I can remember everything we learn along the way.

May 19, 2013 -- Assembling our raised bed, and trying to get it level (in our not-at-all-level yard).

May 19, 2013 -- Added our grid (made of lath) to create our new square foot garden.

May 19, 2013 -- Planted about half of our seedlings.