First May update

The garden has been sprouting nicely the past couple of weeks, urged on by a great deal of rain.  Unfortunately, there’s been a rather lackluster germination rate, but it’s nothing that a little re-seeding hasn’t been able to help with.

Here’s some photos we took last weekend.

Lettuce starts that we bought at Alexander’s Lawn & Garden have already yielded a good number of salads already, it’s nice to have fresh greens at last.  So far, we’ve had almost 2 lbs of lettuce and a lot of salads over the past week.

In particular, our peas are growing well.  We’re growing three varieties, Oregon Giant Snow Peas, Sugarsnap Snap Peas, and Sugar Ann Snap Peas.  The Sugarsnap have been doing rather well, shooting right up to grab the trellis we planted them by.  

By contrast, the Sugar Ann peas didn’t have a great germination rate, though the ones that are sprouting are growing fairly well.

Our brambles out in the side yard are doing remarkably well. The one blackberry is getting very large, as you can see, and the grape is looking very healthy.

Since these photos were taken,there’s been a lot more growth and amazing stuff.  For right now, however, we’re about to go out and fix up our tomatoes in the same Earthboxes we used last year.

I’ll post again later this weekend with more updates on how our various plants are doing.