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My garden progress:
Nice garden! Any problems with deer or other critters? We just lost a bunch of beautiful heirloom tomatoes to hungry deer, and lettuce to a groundhog.
Keeping seeds growing is a challenge because the squirrels think freshly-dug earth is the best place to dig for nuts. I laid hardware wire screening over the beds, about 2-3 inches off the seeds, and removed it once the plants were touching it. They pretty much survive squirrels once they’re big enough. To keep the woodchuck out of the lettuce (he at it all last year), I put chicken wire around the lettuce and that’s kept him completely away and the squirrels choose that area last. So the lettuce is doing great. I’ve whacked a few Japanese beetles off the strawberries and picked just three or four worms off the cabbage. So far, so good!
The photos are almost as beautiful as gardens are right now — the greens are great and . . . . make me want to run outside and weed
Que hermoso huerto!
This year we started our own vegetable garden. My husband built the bed and with the help of the cool people from the Newell St. community garden (who gave us the tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapeno pepers, lettuce plants and advice about the soil) we just harvest some tasty vegetables.
The only thing is that we planted four tomato plants so close together that they have taken over the whole vegetabe garden! We didn’t think they were going to grow that big!
Saludos!