Okay! It's been a while since we mentioned the raised bed in the front yard. Let's see where we last left off...
Sometime around mid-June:
These zucchini and cucumber plants didn't look like they were going to do to well. Right after we planted them their leaves all turned white and dried out. We cut off the damaged leaves, and tried watering them more carefully (not from above). Slowly as they got adjusted to their new homes they really started flourishing.
It took them about a month to really get settled in.
Here they are on July 20th, along with some new friends (Jalapenos on the left)
Not all that much different...
BUT. Here they are only 10 days later! (With some new broccoli friends (right side)
They really loved that week of 90º weather we had a little while back. They just shot off!
And here's our first baby cucumber!
And here they are 11 days after that.
There are loads of baby cucumbers getting bigger!
We harvested our first one just 2 days ago and he is a tasty burger!
This little zucchini has grown from this big to almost a foot long in only 3 days! And now there are loads more little guys growing.
Everything is going QUITE well! Except for one small thing... There is of course one down side... And it too involves a cat. Your friendly neighborhood feral cat has grown quite accustomed to using our garden as a litter box. Pretty much every day we have to go find the day's turds and remove them...
Hooray! Turds!
And waddaya know! More turds!
So we started putting things in the garden to take up any empty space. Leave no space to lay some sweet poop logs... Well that sort of works. Cat no longer poops in the garden. Instead just poops on the ground...
Yay! More turds!
So we pretty much have to clean up turds every day from our yard. Fun times. But at least the cucumbers and zucchini have gotten big enough that there's no more room in the garden for pooping!
For those of you who may be having trouble visualizing what's going on here...
Cat is crapping in our garden!
Alrighty!
Stay tuned for more window-installing fun coming up!
The first project we tackled at the house was the cleanup of the raised bed outside the front of the house. It's been quite overgrown with we're really not too sure what. Some flowers, some weeds, and one giant bush of some sort. Eventually we will be breaking down (and rebuilding) the raised bed to repair a section of sewer line below it (and also because it's falling apart and needs to be repaired/rebuilt) so we didn't want to spend too much time on it. But the sewer line repair is on hold for a while and probably won't get to that until next year. So in the meantime, it'll be nice to make use of the space.
We were just pretty excited to do "something" to the house, and we weren't quite ready for anything else yet, so this was a good first step that didn't require outside help, much planning, or any specialty tools. So we just had at it!
Brick raised bed - Overgrown (before)
Raised bed after cleanup
We found a lot of bones in there... Seriously... A lot.
After transplanting some cucumbers and zucchinis we had grown from seed!
We built a trellis from some bamboo canes and rope we found in the garage.
