I’ve been really busy with my new garden, but I’ve been steadily harvesting cucumbers, tomatoes and peas. I’ve also recently sowed beet, radish, carrot, lettuce and spinach seeds, and Jonathan bought me a couple of strawberry plants and a dry land taro plant from the Kaiser High School family fair. I wasn’t successful with my zucchini (I didn’t thin the crop, then the wind blew it over, and the flowers fell off before any of the fruits developed), eggplants (eaten by pillbugs), or Chinese broccoli (grows too slow and I’m constantly fighting off aphids) , but Jonathan said it’s a learning process, and while I’ve definitely harvested a good bounty, I shouldn’t expect all of my vegetables to be perfect after one season. Looking back to January and February, it’s pretty cool to see how much my garden has grown.
