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Square Foot Garden III
I had incorrectly planted the pumpkin, squash and zucchini in one single square of SFG II. I think you are supposed to use 9 squares and I used just one. Oops.  With SFG III I once again broke the rules and went with 3 2′ by 2′ beds.  I hope the vegetables will be able to hang over the sides [...]

Radishes. Another food I hated as a kid. I was very reluctant to plant some. They came up very quick and tasted wonderful. Just add butter, vinegar and salt.

Pumpkins competing with squash. I didn’t follow the directions and use a 3′ by 3′ space. Typical rookie mistake. I think next year I’ll isolate squash and melons to special 2′ by [...]

Pumpkins on the way.

Watermelon leaves. Huge.

Squash or Zucchini. I still can’t tell. Radish greens.

Dawn has already been picking the green toms for “fried green tomatoes”

In the “by the way” department. I learned a bit too late that once broccoli blooms the yellow flowers, it’s getting too late to eat it. You are actually eating the flowers, so don’t let [...]

Sometimes I wonder why I bother chronicling every step of the garden. It gets pretty tedious. Sometimes like today, I don’t really want to add anything. Then I realize that 6 months from now—when we’re miserable, covered in snow—reading the entries will bring me a lot of joy and provide inspiration for the year to come.

Finally, some action [...]

Cucumbers like this come off the vine every day. It’s one of the easiest and prolific crops out there.

My first tomato. Somehow this was a spiritual experience for a city slicker. Tomatoes are just so intertwined in American society.
Cucumber Vines Taking Over
Them be Pickles in the making!
Square foot Garden II: 2 blocks is not enough! [...]

We have a super plentiful amount of beets all off one square. It makes a great soup. I put the roots in first and then 10 minutes later, the greens go in.

Tomato plants in bloom. After watching the cucumbers bloom out into ‘little pickles’ I now have a better idea of what is coming here. You can tell we [...]

The garden is growing out of control! The cucumbers have gone about 2 feet up the trellis since building it a week or two ago.  I didn’t get any good cucumber pictures, but they are truly amazing to watch as the ‘grab’ the wire and climb up.

I hated beets as a kid, but now I have a true love [...]

If you are looking for an actual recipe stop now. I’m still in the experimental stage, but I’m getting closer.
We used to live right next door to Ingles in North Asheville so I often went down for a fresh “dollar muffin”. The muffins were pretty tasty, unlike the rest of the gross baked stuff they [...]

I spent the whole week doing MVC Joomla web development crap, which is often draining.  Visiting my garden gave me new life again. I’ve found something that can give you back energy after the computer takes it away.
The Harvest Begins!  We’ve been plucking out some of the Green Salad Bowl lettuce and the spinach. It came [...]

I got the idea from another square foot garden blog to keep track of my harvest totals. I’ll keep coming back to this post as the summer wears on:
5/31/10 – 6.75 oz. of lettuce, spinach and basil
6/1/10 – 4.5 oz of lettuce
6/2/10 – .5 oz of Parris lettuce
6/3/10 – 4.5 oz of Green Lettuce
6/7/10 4.5 oz Spinach and [...]