Updates!

We made a sign/walking path for part of the front yard plot. Of course we had to make it a rainbow. It was a wonderful Sunday.

Lots of things have happened recently! No update last week because it rained and we didn't do anything. We just sat tight.

Erica got white onions for planting in her Market Basket from Growing Power (perk of being an intern!) this week, so we had to plant them. We planted four short rows very close together for green onions, and  four small rows spread apart for large onions to dig up at the end of the summer. Some had already sprouted, so we used those for the large onions. In the middle, we planted some kale.

Erica planting white onions in front plot. She so cute!

We had to plant more kale because there was a mishap. Our window box seeded with kale and lavender suddenly turned into...

boooooo(b)

...red flowers and whatever in the middle. There were three hearty kale sprouts. We suspect someone took the initiative to beautify the front porch without realizing the sprouts weren't weeds. Oh well. On a positive note, Jo is reminded that she's learned a lot and probably would have made this same mistake a year ago.

Additionally, we have begun labeling things:

Onions! and JoJo cleaning up shop!

Erica seeded a bit of basil, all of the swiss chard gifted by One Seed Chicago (stingy), and some bull's blood beets while Joanna mixed all of the colors for the "Garden" sign. Jo had artist's block around making the purple, so Erica had to take over for her on that front. Good work, Huggies.

Foreground: spinach mustard. Background: beets. Far background: sneakers.





The beets, spinach, mustard spinach have shot up in the last two weeks. Today was super sunny and warm and I swear to you, the sprouts grew a quarter of an inch this afternoon.

Mustard spinach reminds us of butterflies.

We seeded Ruby and Oakleaf lettuce in the remaining empty space in the backyard. We're experimenting with small-plot seeding practices, so we scattered the seed, rather than planting it in rows. Hopefully the plot will be full of bi-colored crunchy leaves in a few weeks.

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We also seeded a pot of Thai Chile peppers (hott), and another with regular basil, since our potted lime basil and peppers were destroyed by Cats and Cold.

We hope that our robin friend and hir soon-to-be babies will not eat too many of our worms. Joanna will continue to sing-song hello in the morning, but hopefully without continually freaking hir out...

Front porch pals.

We hope your gardens are also growing well!