First (small) Harvest!

Got the first harvest from my "kitchen garden" today. A good serving of string beans and a bell pepper! Looks like I'll have a good harvest beans every couple of days and the Jalepenos should be the next item ready followed by the Roma and Marion tomato.

Also this week I'll be putting down 2 4x4 raised beds (this gets addictive) and work up a plan for what to fill them with. My main goal is to have small continuous harvests throughout the season instead of a single large harvest.

Garden Update 4/17/2011

Well the garden's have all been coming along nicely with great germination among all the various vegetables I plants. Today I thinned the corn to roughly 1'  between seedlings. That left me with about 30 seedlings of sweet corn in total. That should be a good first harvest for me, giving me plenty to roast for a bbq as well as some to put back an freeze for later. I'll get a few more plantings of corn in the ground in the coming weeks so I can really stock up.  I'll be thinning the rest of the vegetables (carrots, chard, spinach, leeks) as they get a bit bigger.

First Sign of Life

Corn Seedling

You get a great sense of satisfaction the first morning you go out to "water the dirt again" and you're rewarded with rows of green peeking through the surface for the first time. That happened today as overnight the Sweet corn all sprouted in unison, along with the first few sprouts of spinach and swiss chard. For those that are keeping score that's 5 days from seed to sprout for the corn and 6 days for the spinach and swiss chard.

Swiss Chard Seedlings