garden

watering and sprouting

Watered a few times during a busy week. Watered around 10pm Friday night, gone for the weekend, then watered on Monday evening.

The zuchini squash plants and leaves are getting huge, the bean leaves are getting bigger, the bell peppers produced their first growing pepper, and the mixed lettuce is finally starting to grow. The basil looks a tad yellow, but I noticed is actually branching and flowering now. The tomato plants have doubled or tripled in size since their original planting, but there are no actual tomatoes growing yet.

watering log

watered a few times last week and it rained at least wednesday and thursday. watered last night while planting onions.

onions

planted around 20 onion sets around the outside edges of the garden.

daily watering

I've watered the garden every evening this week.

This evening, I saw the first tiny leaves all over the place. The lettuce (officially: mesclun) and the cucumbers specifically. Some of the bush beans wiggled to the surface so I re-covered them. They are "hatching" or germinating or something.

Sunset watering

Pounded three tomato stakes in to stabilize the tomato cages and one stake at each end of the open tomato cage serving as the cucumber fence / trellis. Tied the cages to the stakes with the organic twine.

Watered the garden at sunset.

Forgot a few items

Ran back by Lowe's and purchased:
5 tomato stakes
Organic twine

Still need to get 1 lb. of "onion sets" from the grocery.

building the garden

With mucho help from my Father-in-law:
Bolted the two short pieces of lumber to the two long pieces of lumber to create the 5' x 10' garden box.
Sprayed round-up all underneath where the garden's footprint.
Laid the fine mesh down under the garden box to prevent weeds from coming up, but to allow water to drain.
Poured the 10 bags of potting soil into the garden box to form a raised bed and spread soil evenly.
Placed all veggies and herbs and arranged tomato cages and cucumber fence / trellis (an opened triangular tomato cage).
Watered heavily - even more on the tomatoes.

the big day

My in-laws in town and today was the big day to build the garden. My Father-in-law and I went to Lowe's and a few area garden centers and bought all the supplies to build the garden.

Materials:
3 pieces of lumber - 2" x 10" x 10' - 3rd piece cut in half
8 bolts
1 roll of weed preventing mesh for underneath - 3' x 50'
10 bags of potting soil - 3 cu. ft. each
4 triangle tomato cages

Plants:
ready to plant herbs: 2 parsley, 2 basil, 1 oregano, 1 thyme, 1 rosemary
ready to plant veggies: 6 (3 used) zuchini squash, 2 green bell peppers, 3 tomatoes
seeds: cucumber, yellow squash, mixed greens lettuce, (green) bushel beans

Tools:
hand trowel/scoop thing
3 prong hand rake/hoe thing
long 4 prong garden rake
(was given) spade
3' wand nozzle for watering

Photo: Initial Setup

I hope you can get an idea of the garden. There are either seeds or small plants over the whole 50 sq. ft. (5' x 10').