Disclaimer: I am in no way a professional gardener. In all honesty, I have basic knowledge at best and next zero practical experience. This is simply me chronicling my adventures in vegetable gardening!
Time Flies!
I can hardly believe it has been 25 days since my last garden update. What the actual heck?! Where did the time go? I can account for around two weeks, which you can read about here Crazy Two Weeks. As for the rest of the time, uuhhhh, something. Shame bell ringing off in the distance...
First Harvest!
At least with this entry, I can share something really exciting! I have in fact collected my very first harvest from my veggie garden! I had hoped that I would have gotten a lot more done by now, but sadly it wasn't to be I guess. Still, getting to eat something you grew yourself is pretty darn amazing! And it is a lot of motivation to keep at it! Even if I only expand the garden slowly, progress is progress.
Radish Time!
My very first harvest turned out to be the radishes I had planted. They grew with very little encouragement on my part. Some grew better than others, but overall most of them are doing great! I harvested five radishes out of the radish patch. There are still seven remaining in the ground in different stages of growth. This was done on purpose, in hopes that I would be able to harvest a supply of fresh radish on the regular.
Radish bursting from the ground!
It was pretty obvious just from a glance that these radishes were ready as they were literally popping out of the ground! So I selected these three and two others to harvest. I used a small garden fork and carefully dug them out of the ground.
First radish harvest!
Five radishes in total for the first harvest. I took a photo next to my small garden spade to give you a little bit of scale. If you are wondering, the biggest one was around 6 cm in length and 17 cm in circumference.
Freshly washed!
Here they are all washed off! Just look at the lovely colour! Now I know radish leaves are apparently edible but these have tiny spikes on the leaves that kept poking me, so I decided I would rather not try.
Ready to use radishes!
I removed the leaves and the roots and gave them another wash before popping them into the refrigerator. My husband loves radishes and the moment he got home immediately ate one. I had a tiny bite as well. I asked him how it was, and his response was "MORE!", so I think it is safe to assume they measure up to standard, haha.
Rocket Blues
I am starting to see that Rocket, or at least the seeds I have, do not have a very good germination rate. And the few I have managed to germinate appear to be struggling to really grow well. I am not entirely sure what I am doing wrong or what the problem might be. Any advice here is very welcome. I have at least two seedlings that look promising though. Crossing fingers.
Rocket seedlings in the early stages of growth.
The Rest of the Patch
As for the rest of the Veg Patch, I have managed to germinate some tomato seeds that were scooped out of a commercially bought slicing tomato I had for dinner one night. I honestly wasn't sure they would take at all and it did take them a while to pop up. But they are there! This means my next step is to start looking at a trellis of sorts to support the plant as it grows.
Tomato seedlings and lettuce plants.
In the second photo above you can also see my lettuce plants. I think they are just about at a point where I can begin to start harvesting the occasional lettuce leaf. The same applies to my spinach. I hope to get quite a few leaves off of these plants in the coming weeks. My curl-leaf parsley is doing really well too.
My spinach and parsley!
Thanks!
As always, thank you for stopping by and taking the time to read my ramblings. There you go @zakludick and @lex-zaiya, my veg patch update for the week!
Credits:
- Photos by me;
- Canva for helping me make the photos look pretty.