***What's growing? The official garden thread***

Good stuff all around here I put seeds for carrots, radishes, Swiss chard and Belgian endive (experiment this year) in the ground a couple of weeks ago. They are all popping up. We enlarged the garden area with the help of the neighbour's tiller, which was pretty cool. But somehow I wanna try so many things that it still feels limited. We are planning on having little areas all over the backyard one day, with herb patches, veggies etc. I just worked hard for two hours getting the tomatoes, lettuce, bell peppers, zucchini, butternut squash, edamame (another experiment), eggplant (another experiment ), lemon ball cukes, pickled cukes, savoy cabbage, magic black kale, and collard greens in the beds. Oh, and melons too. Another experiment. Our potatoes and garlic are looking fantastic. Then there are some Habaneros that I put in a pot, we'll see how that goes. The lovage from last year came back, as well as the tarragon. I have been cooking with these for a while now. I got parsley coming, and planted another lovage and some basil too. Then there is grapefruit mint. And the raspberry and gooseberry bushes. And two cherry trees haha I guess we're gonna have out hands full. I only canned tomatoes last year, but I would love to pickle more veggies again this year. We'll see what happens. I love that the garden season has finally begun. I wish you all best results!

Aw! I guess oranges don't grow in Ohio. But there are tons of other things possible Our fig tree is doing really nicely, I heard we can even get fruit here in Michigan. I went out in the rain today in between jobs and did some weeding. And I found out that my first three garbanzo bean seeds that I planted and thought had not come out, did in fact. I put them by the other ones. They look so cool. I cannot wait to see if they carry fruit. The other day, I sprayed the whole garden with a fish fertilizer. Seems like all the plants took it well. I harvested some onions and lovage that day too, and in the spray thingie for the hose was still a bit of that garlic concentrate that I used with it before. So I smelled like a whole meal afterwards

I harvested the first two zucchinis today And two sweet, hot peppers. And a tiny tomato. Last week, I picked lettuce, which was delicious. The soil at our oldplace was apparently much better, Facebook showed me a picture from two years ago today, and man, our bounty was triple what I got today. That garden was on former swamp land. I was always joking I would get pregnant if I sat on it naked because it was so freaking fertile We might be a bit slower here, but we are building up the soil quality, so everything takes a bit longer. I have spotted a bean and all the rest looks pretty good. We only got a tiny problem with Japanese beetles eating out cherry trees and roses. But we will take care of that. Everything else looks great. I cannot wait to try my purple cosmic carrots!