Square Foot Garden: Two Weeks

Happy Easter!

Our garden has had a great week!

All seedlings have made at least one appearance.  We added additional fencing to the bean squares for support and vertical growth, hopefully it doesn't get too thick to block the sun for tomato plant #2.  If that happens I'll sacrifice the beans for the tomatoes but I'll cross that bridge if I come to it.  Those tomato plants are ~3X the size in 2 weeks, crazy growth and they have several flowers/buds for potential fruit.

Right here we have watermelon, one onion and one wiener.

Showing off my awesome bean stalk climbing skills.  You may have noticed the brown powder here and there.  We observed a couple of ants in the garden, and since some people say its no biggie and some say to be concerned we decided to err on the side of caution and do something to make it inhospitable to them.  Since we'd like to stay away from pesticides we went with cinnamon.  I was surprised too but it seems that certain insects dislike strong smells associated with certain spices (mint, hot peppers etc).  We'll see how it goes but even if it doesn't work, it makes the garden smell great.

Princess Lucie monitoring the work from her throne above the garden.
"Carry on peasants, your work pleases me."

Check out these potato plants! (strawberrys with a dusting of cinnamon)

The pups got to try the first strawberry.

Hailey tested the mint.

Gardening is hard work.