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As you can see from our upcoming forecast here in the lovely Annapolis Valley, photos may be slightly underrepresented in the next few days of blogdom here. Which is too bad, on several levels.
But really, I can’t complain. Nature gave our plants heaps of sunshine and nice warm air; now it’s time to water. Water LOTS, that is. I can’t help but hope this liberal application of H2O will bring one of our boxes up to speed.
It is interesting to note that while one of our boxes is fairly bursting at the seams with robust growth, two are only growing at a decent pace, and one is somewhat growth-challenged. Normally, one would presume that the soil would be slightly different in that area (particularly in the crazily varied soil we get in this corner of the Earth). We’re thinking that the maple tree that partially shades all the boxes may linger slightly longer on that one box than the others…but we’re not sure. If I get really intrepid, I may take a contrast photo one of these days!
Happily Growing
The good news is HUGE, though: we harvested our first Spinach this week.
Bounty! Can you believe it?
*Actual* *food* *we* *grew* *ourselves.* It boggles the mind, and rocks the taste buds. Our spinach made friends with some from our CSA and happily provided yummy deliciousness to the fine lasagna I made. Now if only I could grow ricotta out there, I’d be totally happy. And maybe jelly beans. And soup.
UPDATE:
As soon as I’d posted the above, I realized it was not raining out (exactly) so I dutifully bustled, post-haste, out to our gardens and snapped these beauties. You’ll note I was able to provide pictorial evidence of our contrasting gardens:
*Meh*
*Boo-Yah!*
Today's Harvest: Now PRE-Washed!
The boxes where planted at the same time? That is amazing…. just look at the difference in the lettuce. Weird.
Yes. I know. It’s very odd.