Garden Box

First harvest: We put in the garden box this year and for the first round of veggies we used broccoli starts and grew lettuce, carrots, and chives from seed. The kids have enjoyed watching everything grow and so have we. We harvested broccoli and took out the plants this week.

We have eaten some lettuce and will finish it off over the next week. Carrots are not quite ready yet, but we are waiting anxiously; G has already taken a 'baby' carrot in to show his teacher. Next to go in is zucchini, yellow squash, cucumber, and basil from seed. We tried starting bell pepper from seed, but I think our grow time here is too short to get it to harvest so I will get starts of bell pepper and maybe one other growing item. Our tomato plants are in a small trash can on the patio (starts since the grow cycle here is too short to get them to harvest before the cool weather sets in). The garden box has been really fun so far. Hoping summer harvest goes as well as the cool weather veggies.

love and hugsand eat your veggies (though I wouldn't ask anyone to go to the vegetarian extreme of G), B