Journey In Gardening

I’m finding that the weather here in the foothills is just nutty. It’s been in the high 70’s, it’s snowed and it’s been in the mid 50’s, that’s just crazy to me. And I’m not sure it’s been the best for my gardens either.

Some of the veggies are doing just great while others, well, not so much. I’m going to give the ones that aren’t doing so well a little more time, maybe another couple of weeks, but if they don’t bounce back I may just replace them.

So what’s doing well? For one, my lettuce, it’s huge! The green onions in with the lettuce are looking pretty good too.

My herbs are also looking great. I’ve got chives, cilantro and pineapple mint together.



Up at my grandparents the long leaf kale is looking quite tasty. The broccoli (at the bottom) is also looking good.



And the carrots at my grandparents and the ones here are all doing really well. I’m super excited about these because they’re the only ones we planted as seeds so I was a little more worried about if I did it right. Looks like I didn’t have anything to worry about.





The curly kale, over with the peas, however do not look like they’re doing too well. They look exactly the same as they did when I first planted them and I’m pretty sure they should be bigger.



The watermelon plants also look the same as when they were planted. Actually, they look worse then they did when they were planted. The boys were super excited about growing watermelon so I’ll definitely be replacing these.



So while some things are doing better than others I’m still pretty darn happy overall. I’m learning that gardening isn’t as scary as I thought it would be and that even when things don’t go as planned (snow in May) it doesn’t necessarily mean disaster. That and that next year I will definitely wait until June to plant.

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