Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Neonatal Salad


Aaaaaah. I LOVE gardening. We spent some time out in the garden this weekend. Eric hauled dirt and HUGE, WONDERFUL planters from our friends, the Baileys, who are moving soon (we're gonna miss you guys!) while I prepped the earth garden, planted squash and cucumber seeds, and watered all the herbs and lettuces. It felt soooo good to work up a sweat wielding that hefty shovel. Monday I planted more peas, a new round of lettuces, beets, and put our pepper and tomato plants in the ground. I am so excited to eat the results! I know the seeds take a while to germinate, so I have to remind myself "self, it is still a little too soon to expect any green to be poking up out of the dirt yet", but I can't help checking every day anyway! Soon I'll be thinning our lettuces... ever heard of baby greens? Well, ours are still too small to qualify, but we'll eat them anyway. Eric rather wittily says we'll be having a "neonatal salad" soon! :)

Our first squash plant coming up. So exciting! Grow, baby, grow!

Our sweet setup thanks to my brilliant husband! Soaker hoses make watering a piece of cake.

One of my herb plants. Basil. Needs to be thinned, I know, but I think this clump is actually very aesthetic. So cute, too.

I love the hanging planter that Eric whipped up with some cheap 2x4s, wood screws, and wire for FHE. He is so handy with tools!

and these are the huge planters! We love them! Can't wait for those beets... :)

8 comments:

  1. Looks GREAT Elisa! I'm so impressed! And thanks for that basil picture. I've never grown basil from seeds and there was no seedling ID on my seed packet. Now I know which "weeds" NOT to pull!

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  2. Wow. If I ever get around to planting a real garden I am for sure asking your advice. So . . . you are growing beets? What do you do with them? I just got some in my organic produce box this week and I'm looking for ways to use them. Let me know!

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  3. Our garden is going in this weekend...Scott promises that since he's on call, it will happen. Things are looking great! Love the new blog banner, too!

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  4. Those look great! I'll have to learn from Eric.

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  5. Get the gardening in now before Gwen learns how to crawl and won't stay on a blanket outside any more! BTW: I like the new family picture. How cute!

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  6. So I'm pretty sure I just read that whole post in awe with my mouth hanging open. If you could only see my poor garden. We've always been able to produce a huge garden (sometimes it gets a little out of control), but this year I got greedy and planted everything too early. I thought it would be okay about a week and a half ago but I think the cool nights did some damage. Hopefully we still get something! I love all your planters, you guys are serious gardeners now!

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  7. I want a garden so badly!! it looks so nice! and I bet the sweat did feel good!! :-)

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  8. Totally jealous. Cannot wait to have SPACE of our own!!!

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