Experience of A First Time Gardener
This past summer, I started my first vegetable garden in our community garden. The most frequent question I am asked is: "How long does it take for your garden to grow?" At the beginning, I wasn't sure. But now that I've gone through one planting season, the answer is...... It's a remarkably short time! Take a look at the pictures: May 2nd, 2020 This is what the plot looked like when we first rented it. My gardening partner (Sapna) and I cleared out the straw (for weed suppression), re-aligned the plot borders with old fenced boards and started planting. We started with a rough layout of the garden plan, and put in a raised bed. We decided to plant most of our vegetables in pots because of gophers and other critters. (More on that in another post). May 19th, 2020 By this date, we planted 2 tomato seedlings (Roma and Early Girl) and 2 cantaloupe seedlings in the raised bed. We had one serrano seedling and four zucchini seedlings in pots (2 Black Beauty and