Zen Acres: Planting Complete! (for now anyway)

May 26, 2008 - It was another beautiful day today and it could not have been more perfect for finishing up our planting. We spent the first few hours of the day watering all our transplants from yesterday and planting the rest of the tomatoes, peppers, and cabbages in whatever spots we could find. This is the largest bed, which we finished yesterday. It's full of tomatoes, peppers, basil, cucumbers, and eggplants. You can't quite see the plants in the picture, but it'll make a great 'before' pic once they've all grown up -

We also noticed last night that the corn has sprouted! It's been so interesting just to watch as everything first comes up and to notice how different all the vegetables look in their first few days.

For lunch, we decided to cook up some greens - these were some radishes that I had left over from my first sowing - for some reason a few of them never really formed the actual radish root, which I don't understand, I will have to look that up. But as I've said before, the greens taste great, so we ate these and some mature arugala leaves.

After lunch, we were out of fencing and not out of plants to put in the ground, so we had to make a quick trip to Williams Lumber. Came home and fenced in our last bed which we planted with zuccini, delicata squash, butternut squash, and cantaloupe. This is going to be one wild bed in a few months!

So at that point, everything we grew from seed was officially in the ground! (Except for a few more basil plants I have that are still too tiny for transplating). It's a huge relief to have it done, but now a new phase of work begins. We'll be out there watering before work every morning, crossing our fingers that nothing dries out while we're gone. Hopefully there won't be too much weeding since we mulched almost everything. Plus, we're really not done planting. We still want to plant some sunflowers, more peas and beans, and I've got a whole section of a tilled bed reserved for some more lettuces. So my digging days this season are far from over!

Satisfied with the garden for the time being, I spent some time talking with Kelly about our house plans. We are currently working out what materials we will use, and ironing out the dimensions of the walls and floors, attic and basement heights, things like that. We still have a bunch of research to do before we make final decisions...

Then it was off to Home Depot for Joe and I. We spent another good long while in the electrical aisle, where Joe continues his education while I stand around (or often dance around), taking random pictures for fun -

Now the lumber aisle is far more exciting for me - look at all that wood! I just learned today that a 2' by 6' doesn't actually measure 2" or 6". How bazaar...