Our Tiny Garden

Andy and I went to the Farmers' Market today, for the first market of the year. One good thing about having such a terrible winter is that it really makes you appreciate it when spring rolls around! The first few Farmers' Markets usually just have plants and early spring veggies (peas, salad greens, swiss chard). It was a nice, partly sunny day so it was a perfect time to plant.

I took the above picture after I finished planting all of our new spouts. As you can see, the chives survived the winter beautifully! The people who live on the floor below us were nice and raked the whole yard, so all I had to do was dig a few holes for my plants. You can see where I planted all of the salad greens, a daisy plant, and in the background is the basil. (I can already taste the basil mayo and the chive omelets.)

The salad greens are so tiny and cute! I don't eat salads on a regular basis, but when I do it will be pretty cool to just go get some from out back. Maybe I'll plant another tomato plant.

Our yard is pretty nice, but unfortunately since the houses are so packed in, the garden only gets part sun. Most plants that I plant require full sun, but I just plant whatever I like and hope that it will grow. Last summer, we had great luck with the calendulas (which practically took over the garden), the chives, and the golden cherry tomatoes, but unfortunately nothing happened with our melon plant, even though we watered the hell out of it. Lesson learned. I have high hopes for the salad greens and everything else we planted, but we'll see.

I also planted some creeping thyme and candy-striped flox this year. This year, we didn't participate in a CSA because we have no idea about when we're moving to Boston this year (if that ever happens), which means more regular trips to the local markets and maybe planting more stuff in my garden. I have no idea what else I want to plant so far, but we'll see what next week's market has to offer.