Becoming A Gardener

The nearby school garden where we planted our extra tomatoes (we added 8 more tomato plants a few days later, so now there are 13 tomato plants over there!) has some old kale that went to seed.

After very disappointing, but enlightening (no pun intended), sun-study results in the vegetable garden beds, the next sun study I did was in the front yard. And this time I got much more favorable results.

See Week 13: here

The tomatoes are really starting to take off!

And I have a couple small zinnias:

The garden has been growing so slowly with so little sun this year. This is the first week that I really feel a little hope. Here’s where the garden started: week 1

I grew everything in this garden from seed – I’m endlessly amazed at what grows out of a teeny tiny seed.

Vegetable Literacy by Deborah Madison is the next book on my summer reading list.

The next plant in our yard that needs a name is this large evergreen right by the kitchen door.

I was pretty sure it was a yew, but wasn’t entirely positive.

When I visited Nate a couple weekends ago, I got a chance to see his forest first-hand. Some of the trees had died, but some were actually doing quite well!

This birch (er…actually red alder? we think?) is doing really well! (See the previous post for comparison.)