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Garden Progress Part 2

It's been a few weeks since my last garden post, and so I thought I'd update where the boxes are at. Here's our first square foot box. The items in this box are growing...but slowly. Since the cold Spring had stunted our bud growth on our trees, we didn't realize this was not a great spot for our first box. We've trimmed a few down-ward limbs with perhaps two more, so our plants should be sprouting better in upcoming weeks once they get sun-soaked!
This next box is our rabid grower, though we are really needing a trellis so the sugar-snap peas can climb. Right now after a few inches a week, they are taking over each other....
Here are a few of our cute, very unripe raspberries. The renters before us (or maybe 2 before us) started a little box with about three bushes, and this year, if the birds don't eat them and they do well, we'll have close to 50 berries to pick off! It won't be roughly until July or August, though.
And what would be a garden post without something a garden needs--dirt and water. My kids are finding out the sweet pleasure of mud between their toes and getting dirty at 9:30 in the morning!
How is your garden doing?
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kylee said…
I love that summer is here so I can tend to my gardens again! Is it strange that I enjoy going out to find weeds, or sitting at my veggie garden every evening to check up on my little guys? We ate BLTs last night with store-bought tomatoes, and it made me so anxious for those juicy fresh from the garden tomatoes!!
June 8, 2011 at 7:55 AM
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