We started in early April with lettuce mix, arugula, spinach, fennel, and peas. After planting, nothing happened for almost two weeks, but just when I had lost hope we saw a few tiny leaves poking through the ground. Arugula first, then some spinach. It was a bit confusing, because the baby veggies look nothing like mature leaves.
Here's some of the earliest arugula:
Once we had a little taste of success, we got more ambitious. We now have added tomatoes, eggplant (still pretty sorry looking), cucumbers, peppers, scallions, and brussels sprouts:
mixed lettuce:
pea plants climbing the chicken wire:
fennel:
right in the center, there's a tiny green pepper growing!
brussels sprouts--these are enormous, but still no actual sprouts:
cherry tomatoes--I cannot express how excited I was to see these babies. I totally can't wait to eat a real tomato!
grape tomato:
We'll see if the eggplants and cukes do anything interesting. We also transplanted a bunch of the tomatoes today to spread them out. Hopefully I didn't kill them! Totally can't wait to cook from the stuff in our backyard :-)
