Hello, gardening friends! Our little community garden is going along strong so I thought I'd make an update. The above picture is a wider view from above, so you can get a better idea of our setup in the courtyard. It's quite nice!
I have PUMPKIN PLANTS! After starting some indoors and then learning the hard way that they don't like their roots to be disturbed (which I learned when I tried to transplant them), I started again directly sowing seeds in my garden box and they are doing well now. :)
My statues are watching over the patch of scarlet clover. :)
I have a bunch of volunteers in the box aside from what I planted intentionally, and now that they've grown for a month, I can see that most of the volunteers are trees of heaven, even though I went through the soil picking out about ten bajillion seeds at the start of the season. So I have to do some weeding, but I didn't do that today. It's on my to do list now, though. Some of the other volunteers are grasses because someone put a bird feeder right near my box and a boatload of seeds fell in. I also picked out a ton of those, but I know I didn't get all of them.
Over on this side I have turnips and tomatoes (and all those tree of heaven seedlings).
I'm so glad we have a community garden now. How are your gardens doing?