The Marathon of Spring Planting and Other Gardening Joys

And we're back!  I know we haven't posted here for a while- we have been busy busy busy in the garden though.  I had forgotten that spring planting can feel like a marathon sometimes, in a totally good way.  Once we get something in the ground and snuggled up with some nice compost, there always seems to be something else we can plant.It has been almost two months since our last update- eek!  The garden is looking good, friends.  We now have tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers planted; we have been harvesting gorgeous broccoli heads for a couple weeks now, with cabbage soon on the way in as well; and we just planted cucumbers, flowers, okra, and green beans this morning.  Lots happening!Let's see...other updates and events from the past couple of months include:TillingPlanting cabbage and broccoli- they look so small in these pictures compared to what they look like now!Seeds sprouting- I do believe our arugula sprouted first, followed by the radishes, lettuce, beets, buckwheat, snap peas, and carrots.The asparagus came up!  MAJOR event in the garden in my mind. Spring showers led to a thriving garden.  They also led to thriving weeds, which we are still tackling bit by bit.  The weeds are mostly under control now though, thankfully.We planted tomatoes and basil!  This morning we also staked the tomatoes- and so begins building our support network for them, literally.  We are all very excited to have them staked and I'm sure they are too!Not quite everything is peaches and cream in the garden though:Bunnies ate our Swiss chard seedlings- darn bunnies!  We reseeded our Swiss Chard row and now have many small chard sprouts.Flea beetles are going to town on our eggplants.  We actually are probably going to replace many of the eggplants, their leaves are so damaged.  Pyrethrin (organic bug repellent) and row cover time!Our snap peas never did very well.  They had some fungus, so we pulled them up about a week and a half ago.  Not exactly bad news though, as we just planted okra and green beans in this row- it's all a cycle.Stay tuned for more summer updates soon!  Now that school has ended and we're getting into the summer garden schedule, we should have much more frequent posts.  TTFN!