Two weeks ago our garden was starting to flourish. The peas, radishes, beets & lettuce all broke ground. Last weekend we decided to thin out the beets and radishes, as they were in clusters that would have probably choked off any successful growth. Then again... what do we know, we've never gardened before, perhaps all would have been fine. Following the thinning we had several days of colder rainier weather and i'm thinking we may have lost much of the crop. (crop... sounds like it's supposed to be fields of beets & radishes right... you can laugh at me... I'm laughing at me too.)
In a completely separate occurrence our lettuce has all disappeared. Was it something we did? Was it a little critter? Was it all the rain? We're going to try again on the lettuce.
The good news is that our peas our doing great and our asparagus has actually started growing. We have about 4 thin spears ranging from 1" to 8" tall. Our asparagus will grow into 3-6 foot tall ugly weedy looking things that we'll ultimately let die into the same spot so that they will provide us with a more significant crop next year. We'll most likely do the same thing next year and then the following year we should start getting asparagus for eating.
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