Radish passes the test.

The radishes must be good, kids won't eat anything that's not, right? This is Paloma, my ECD's beautiful 6-year-old daughter enjoying one of the first radishes to come out of the garden. If they're good enough for her they're good enough for me.

27 Days

So we're almost a month in and the garden is doing great. (pats self on back) Given that my main function around here isn't gardening I think things are going really well.

I still need to finish switching out the drip lines for soaker lines and put up the second trellis, but maybe I can squeeze that in today between projects. The longer days are certainly helping me with getting out and tending things. Although given the deluge rain we've had lately, the irrigation can probably wait. 

It looks like some of the radishes are almost ready. I'd like them to get a little more substantial before I start pulling them up, so maybe the end of next week. I'll let you know.

But the carrots have a long way to go. I had forgotten how long it takes carrots to do their thing.

Tiny feast

The garden is doing great and it's officially time for thinning. As I was pulling out the smaller, weaker seedlings it dawned on me that what I was pulling was probably pretty delicious - they are baby greens after all. So I took a bite and suddenly I couldn't get enough. I had myself a tiny salad.

The bunch you see here is arugula. I was amazed by how big the flavor was in such a small seedling. I can see why the rabbits are so crazy about this stuff.

Arugula says Hi.

As does Radish.

And Pea.

Red Cabbage just gives a confident nod.