Garden Update

We love our little square foot garden boxes. They allow us to have a little bit of a garden in our little backyard. 

But it's kind of been left untended the past few weeks, and plants have taken on a life of their own. It's rained a lot. And the temps have been perfect for growing. 

Everyday of the ten-day forecast has rain in it. So I think it's only going to get more exciting.

The sage (the purpley-green plant on the left) totally overtook the lettuce, so it had to go. I planted it last year--I don't know what I was thinking! Tell me one recipe that uses sage, besides turkey stuffing. It didn't get very cold over the winter, so the sage was ready to TAKE OVER.

Lettuce, on the other hand, I eat everyday. Sometimes twice.

I haven't gotten very good (read: I don't do it at all) at staggering my planting. So, when I was planting things I thought, "It'd be nice to try growing cauliflower. I do like cauliflower." In my mind I envisioned going out to the backyard and picking a cauliflower to eat once or twice a week for a month or so.

Nope. That's not how plants produce. We get to eat as much cauliflower as we possibly can this week. And probably never again this growing season. Someday I will remember: stagger the planting.