Garden Happenings

Lily and I have been going to the garden about once a week to harvest pounds and pounds of strawberries. I'd usually pick a couple of spinach leaves for some salad or a sandwich as well. Other than that, I had pretty much let the patch go wild. Today I finally got around to cleaning it up and planning the next set of plantings. 

While clearing out the well-spent spinach patch I found that some volunteer tomato seedlings had sprung up. I'm fairly certain they are cherry tomato plants because those things are like weeds. I was planning on planting the broccoli here and the tomatoes in the next row over so there wouldn't be tomato plants in the same spot two years in a row. I suppose I could try transplanting them to the new spot, but I feel like that has disaster written all over it. So I'm contemplating just leaving them where they are and adding a few Roma tomato and Big Boy tomato plants to the mix. Is this a really bad idea? 

Here's a picture of Lily mugging for the camera while holding her watering can. The little tomato seedlings are right next to her. 

Our carrots finally decided to start growing! This makes me very happy. I love fresh carrots from the garden. They taste great, they're cute, and they're fun to harvest. I'll do some thinning on Thursday, and sprinkle some more seeds so we can have a longer harvest. 

Later in the week I'll be picking up a couple of tomato plants, like I mentioned before, and also some bell peppers and broccoli. The original plan was to try watermelon, too, but I'm starting to think better of it. I'm a fairly negligent gardener, and if the strawberries are any indication of my ability to reign in my plants, then I should not even consider doing something as large and unwieldy as watermelons. We'll just have to get them at the farmers' market or the grocery store. 

Finally, our little lavender plant is just about getting swallowed up by the strawberry behemoth, but it's still lovely.