Andrew

My garden isn't doing well. I had a great bean harvest and a pretty good pea harvest, but my tomatoes and potatoes are doing terribly. The blight that is sweeping through the Northeast is killing my plants. I lost all my potato plants and managed to salvage a meager 7 potatoes. I should have had upwards of 20lbs of potatoes. So far I've managed to harvest one tomato and it looks like I might get about 20-30 tomatoes before my plants succumb.

My garden is doing quite well now. Not much to say, so I'll let the pictures do the talking:

My garden is moving along at this point. My pea plants are growing very well and despite the assertion on the packet that I didn't have to stake them I ended up having to set some stakes out. They were supposed to be "dwarf vines" that didn't need to be staked, but the plants are growing tall enough that they fall over and were getting tangled up. Instead of letting them vine along the ground I decided to let them grow up. Now that they're staked they're doing very well. I can see the very small beginnings of the seed pods that will hopefully yield fresh peas.

My garden is continuing to grow. I recently transplanted most of my tomatoes to even larger pots (sorry, no pictures right now). The tomato plants were 4-6" tall with lots of leaves so I decided to put them in a larger planter until I transplant them into the actual garden. May 15th is my average day of last frost so I plan on transplanting them in the next week or two. One of my tomato plants lost its first leaves, but I've been assured that most of them do that so I shouldn't be worried.

My garden is taking off! The last post I made indicated that my gardening adventure was heading towards peril, but it seems like things are changing.

First the sad news. Everything I planted a few weeks ago, with the exception of a single onion, is dead. We had a few days of severe frost that killed even the frost-hardy lettuce and onions. There's only one lettuce sprout that looks like it's still alive and kicking. It's still bright green and is thicker than it was when I planted it. The rest of the sprouts are all shriveled and dead (or will be very soon). I've learned that starting from seed is hard and that if you plant at the wrong time you can lose some plants.

I've begun my journey on the gardening path. I've recently started my first garden and I plan on chronicling my journey. I decided to start with the Square Foot Gardening method because it seemed like the easiest way to transition into gardening. I have already built two boxes and filled them with dirt.