Fence

I built a fence yesterday out of bamboo sticks and garden netting. It is a little difficult to see from this photo, but the netting is there. Time will tell if it holds up against the dogs. But, for the time being, it was a quick and cheap way to keep them out of the onion and garlic patch.

The squash plant is loving life in the sunny corner, growing huge leaves and budding. The lettuce and chard are doing well, too.

Even some of the basil is starting to come back (a la 2nd edition). No sign of the onions yet, but it is too early.

Kind of Cheated

Yesterday, Julia and I went to The Flower Bin in Longmont to use our $2 worth of Sunny Money! We ended up buying two small herb plants: French Tarragon and Tomillo Thyme.

Therefore, in addition to those two plants, we have about six basils growing, as well as seven kinds of lettuce, two kinds of chard, and one mystery sprout that is probably a squash.

We plan to go back to The Flower Bin come late February/early March to buy crowns of asparagus. I was looking up prices for crowns and they are expensive. I don't think we will save money on this crop this year. But, hopefully we can have a bed of asparagus for a few years.

Genovese Basil

The basil started coming up today. It only took 6 days (and not 8-10 days). The lettuce and chard are already starting to sprout as well.

Julia hung up her photos today at Alfafa's Whole Foods. There is a grand opening next Friday 6-8pm. Free cupcakes.

Genovese basil

I planted five small planting pots of Genovese basil this morning. Hopefully, I will see them sprouting up in 8-10 days. I plan on transplanting all of the successful pots into a larger pot to live in the sunny corner indoors. We still have a large jar of dried basil that Rich gave us back in the fall. By the time we use that all up, hopefully we will have fresh basil to eat.