Garden update

Here's how our raised beds look now:








Since this is our first year with the raised beds, I had already declared this my "year of experimentation" as far as the garden went. Failure, successes--both are welcome this year as I learn what grows well here and what won't.

In the first bed I planted kale, potatoes, bush beans, green peas, onions, and carrots, and squash. The kale is still small, and the carrots made tiny sprouts, then just withered away to nothing. I think the kale might have been planted too late, because we didn't get the beds put out as early as we would have liked. Everything else looks good so far.

In the second bed we have cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, red bell peppers, and head lettuce. The lettuce looks great, and one end of the bed has some great looking cauliflower and broccoli plants. Oh, can't forget the dill that is also doing well. I've already been harvesting and drying the dill.

I'll probably go ahead and harvest the little bits of kale that we have so that I can plant something else in their place, and also plant something where the carrots are.