From Rototill to Straw Mulch

All the stars (well, grandmas) aligned today and Ian and I finally got our main kitchen garden in.  Ian rototilled on Friday evening and today we edged, raked, planted, fertilized, watered, mulched almost everything with straw, and watered again.

This might not look like much but it was an entire day's work!

In this garden we planted chard, flat and curly leaf parsley, sweet onions, green and purple broccoli, green cauliflower, red and chinese cabbage, brussels sprouts, cucumbers, snap peas, yellow beans, lettuce, spinach, eggplant, kale, yellow zucchini and a whole whack of tomatoes (chocolate cherry, blue smurf, yellow, purple, red, green and every colour in between!).

This main garden will complement the box and pallet gardens that are already coming along nicely.

Here we have dill, lettuce (red & green leaf, iceberg), watercress, spinach (green & strawberry) and garland.

Here we have lettuces, spinach, arugula, radishes, sage, oregano, chard and dill.

Here we have scallions, carrots, arugula, radishes, thyme, lavender and rosemary.

Here we have endive, green head & leaf lettuce, arugula, spinach, watercress, red lettuce, radishes and chard.

Here we have carrots, parsnips, beets, daikon and turnip.

We also planted our pumpkin and sunflower patch today.

Now we water, watch, and wait for the weeds to grow like gangbusters.