garden's a growin'

Well, its been a couple of weeks and things are definitely looking good. I've learned a few lessons the hard way though, next year I'll do better:
      > cage of trellis plants from their infancy, not after they're already beginning to take over your garden
      > Squash (crookneck and zucchini) can be grown in tomato cages but its hard. next year I think I'll try making a chicken wire trellis instead.
      > because I was not so good at teaching my plants to grow up this year, my zucchini squash may have stunted the growth of my garlic. More on this at harvest time.

I harvested my first crop of cilantro!! SOOO yummy!

I also planted a second cilantro plant so that hopefully I'll always have fresh cilantro :)

The best way to get large onions is to cut the stem that grows above ground down every 4-6 weeks. As you can see, it's nearly time to do this again. (I planted 2 squares of sweet red onions at 9 onions per square)



    

My strawberry plants were getting a bit too much sun so I transplanted them into pots. I'm hopeful they'll survive to be fruit bearing this summer :)

In their place, I planted two New Mexico Hatch chilies (the only difference between New Mexico Hatch chilies and Anaheim chilies is where they were seeded; both make delish salsa among other things).

 Please disregard the adorable toddler taking a water break next to the garden. :)

I remembered to cage these two immediately. I also grabbed a couple of sticks out of the yard waste bin and used soft twine to tie the plants to them. I'm planning to watch how they grow and may switch to a different trellis system if they get too tall and sprawling like the squash.

And so the growing continues :)


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