Harvest: Celery

I successfully grew celery in the garden and it’s the most delicious celery I’ve ever had! Isn’t it just beautiful?! 

I finished this today!

The garden is in! 

We planted 20 tomato bushes, zucchini, yellow squash butternut squash, green beans, yellow beans, broccoli, strawberries, asparagus, peas, lettuce, carrots, beets, spinach, cucumbers, basil, peppers, rosemary, cilantro, onions, thyme, oregano, 2 kinds of watermelon, cantaloupe, and 3 kinds of asparagus. 

I calculated that just the boxes shown above took 4 cubic yards of screened compost, and 1040 lbs of humus/manure, peat compost blend, mushroom compost, cotton burr compost, and sphagnum peat. No wonder our arms are so sore!  I am extra happy I pushed myself to do the other boxes back in February.  One thing is for sure, unless we rent a bobcat for a day, the landscaping rock to go around the  cedar boxes will definitely have to wait until next year! I did the rock at our last house by hand and the memory still haunts me.  Little by little, it is coming together. It sure would be great to get some berry bushes and fruit trees or grapes going this year though. Maybe that will sound like a good idea again once I've had a week to recover from this massive undertaking.  

And in spite of all the land they have to run around and scratch in, these girls still sit on the step by the door, wanting to be let inside.