We will update this page throughout the season.

It is April 7 and we just made our first garden purchase of the year: parsley – flat leaf Italian and curly. Last year we had moderate success with the parsley in a wine barrel; we will repeat the same with fresh soil added from our compost bin.

4/29

Today, the edible garden begins in earnest.  We are planting the first five tomato plants, pickling cucumbers, and cantaloupe melons. So far, we have not purchased any soil; we found free worm castings on craigslist, we have compost from a couple of years of build-up (and decay), and one bag of fill sand left over from a project (horseshoe pit; UPDATE: fill sand is not good for aeration; Olympia sand or play sand are much better) that I will mix into the main bed for aeration.  On top of the parley, oregano, basil, and peppers, we have the beginnings of a good year.

7/7

We have our first red tomatoes – from the Roma plant, not the early girl. The basil is coming back after a difficult period. Both forms of parsley are doing very well, and, finally, I am having some success with cilantro – not a forest, but harvestable.

8/19

We have started harvesting tomatoes – for about two weeks now. It is the early, sparse production, and the deep sweetness has not set in yet; that said, we have pulled out seven pounds of tomatoes; we are eating the basil, the cilantro, the parsley, the oregano, and, surprisingly, last years pepper plant is producing jalepenos at a good clip.

The cucumber plant has kicking in nicely, so we are planning to make pickles in the fall.

Once again, we have volunteer tomatoes – this year, we culled four volunteers, and they are doing nicely, if a bit behind the purchased plants.

I am planning to pick-up some bat guano this week for the tomatoes; I will post the results.

8/26

Finally added the bat guano today. We have harvested about eight pounds of tomatoes so far.

11/5

Tomatoes are petering out; we have harvested about 24 lbs, and not optomistic about the late season harvest. Many friends, even quite close by, have done very well this year; not sure what happened, but have ideas…

The cucumbers are going nuts; the parsley is excellent; the basil – more than we can eat.