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So I went out in the wet jungle-like grass to inspect my garden this morning. We've had nothing but rain for 3 months...er, days...and I wanted to see how over-grown the weeds had become.

I was very excited to see 4 neat rows of seedlings in the "Radishes" square. Hooray!!

Last week sometime - I now forget the exact day - I took the opportunity of being at home to get my eldest DD out there, and we planted 16 carrots and 16 radishes in 2 square foot sections. Last weekend, I also purchased (yes, I know - there was a mixup and the free ones I was supposed to get didn't materialize) two tomato plants. One was free from our local florist, and its called "Dan's Favorite", so who the heck knows what that will taste like. It is a regular old red, big, tomato style. The other is a sweet grape tomato which NJ loves. I also started four more sugar snap peas. Out of the first four, only two have started to grow. The other two are either very late, or aren't gonna make it at all. *shrug* Oh well.

The broccoli are doing great, there are four oregano and two parsley that have been out there for a while and are thriving, and one basil plant that looks a bit pale, but seems to be ok.

This weekend will be spent mostly weeding. I think the plan is to start another batch of carrots and radishes in about a week and a half. Then I also get to start the beans, cucumber and cantelopes. After that, no new plants will be added - it'll just be maintenance until harvest time!

So far, my experiment is going well. It hasn't really taken too much time to care for this garden, and the fruits (rather, vegetables) of my labour are well worth the investment of that time. Hopefully the weeding necessary to keep this bed growing won't make me change my mind. :)