Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary

How does your garden grow?


Quite nicely, thanks, but my name isn't Mary.


My broccoli isn't coming along as quickly as I had hoped. I thought it would be done by the first of June, but I think its going to be another month until harvest. I've harvested spinach twice so far, and tonight we had some lovely spinach and rice with our steak kabobs. I received some advice to plant my spinach around the broccoli which I think is a fabo idea. I'm going to do that this week, I hope. So here are some nifty pictures of my garden.

The whole shebang:



A itty bitty broccoli head in the middle there.

The Contagion Descendeth

Both Jason and Caden are down with a nasty virus. I've avoided it thus far and hope I don't succumb. And I hope my guys get over it quickly. And knock on wood, that Caden won't get croup this time. He gets croup every.single.time. he gets a cold. And if he doesn't that either means 1) The daily singulair is helping that and his allergies 2) He does have reflux and the Zantac is helping or 3) He's outgrowing the tendency. Which is it? The world may never know.

Other than that, things are coasting along smoothly. I'm getting ready to purchase some seeds for my garden. I'm going to build at least one more box and possibly two. I can't believe how much my Square Foot Garden (SFG) produced last year, and I'm excited to expand this year. I'm also going to do more container herbs and am considering growing some strawberries. I'm also going to do an official experiment with some, err, organic fertilizer and marigolds. More on that later.

And because I haven't yet, I'm going to post a picture of the very handsome Caden. Oh! If you haven't checked in at Nathan's blog lately, please do! They've received some very great news. http://cfhusband.blogspot.com/ And yes this picture is from this past fall. After his second birthday, I'll post some more.