A productive weekend

Last weekend I was a garden juggernaut...okay, spelling might be if-y but you know what I mean.

After coming home from my family trip to Germany, I was highly motivated to start full-force with my vegetable garden. Being away from the garden for over 2 weeks, the weeds were really coming back in with a vengence! I WEEDed the entire north garden (left side), double dug the two plots I have for veggies (both are about 2ft x 5ft), mixed in some organic fertilizer and soil amendments, and started planting - 4 cherry tomato plants, 3 chive bundles, 10 pepper plants (2 anaheim, 4 sweet bell, 4 jalapenos), 6 strawberry plants, and a sprinkling of basil, various lettuce, and cilantro seeds in between. That is all in one plot. And I still have 4 san marzano, 3 chive bundles, and a sprinkling of some other kind of seeds, as well as planting marigolds and seeds of other types of flowers (i don't know what yet) to be added to this space.

The second plot will have 4 eggplants, a bunch of bean plants (i've already started the seeds), and I don't know what yet.

Since I gave all my seed starts away before I went on my trip, I am starting anew. Right now, I've planted bantam corn, 5 different beans (blue lake, garbanzo, tendergreen, royal burgundy, dragon langerie), 3 different soy beans (shironomai, black jet, envy), cucumber, zucchini...and I think that's it. I still want to plant my charantais melon seeds, and some flower seeds to get some color into my garden. Yes, it's going to be a whirlwind gardening project again this weekend. I have to WEED the east garden (the part against my back fence), buy more soil amendments, and try to better plan what goes up in that area. oh, and i have to finish planting my north garden.

the following weekend will be to tackle the south garden (right side) - WEEDing, double digging and planting. If i stay on schedule, I'll have everything done and planted before June comes around. yay! I just feel a little late on everything, and I can't work in the garden during the week because my little 1-year-old is quite clingy when he comes home after a day in day care. Which is okay. I can recoup till then and plan more.

I'll probably get started on more seeds during the week - at least after he goes to bed. :-)