My Garden

While Dad was here visiting, he helped me plant my square-foot garden and this is what it looks like after 11 days! WAHOO!!

The following is the view from the north end of the 3' x 6' garden:

The next one is the view from the west.
 

Front and center are 9 Red Leaf Lettuce plant. South (right) of them is a tomato that I started from seed and I'm tickled pink that it is still alive and well. At the back on the right are two tomato plants that I bought at Lowe's. On the left in the back is a Zucchini plant also acquired at Lowe's. In front of the Zucchini are potatoes, planted in 5 square feet (one potato in each, except for the front left corner which contains two potatoes) that makes sort of a Utah shape. Dad prophesied failure for my poor little potato plant because the box is nowhere near deep enough. HOWEVER, my friend Sarah was over and told me that I could just make a box to set over teh top of my little "Utah" potato field and fill it with dirt. They're growing quickly, so I will cover them with dirt this week and hope that it works. tee-hee!!!

Levi likes to help me water the garden and likes to look at and carefully touch the plants. He followed my example of pushing dirt around today, which was kind of scary, but I think he figured out what I was doing, i.e. filling in holes where we'd dumped water too quickly into the dirt.