Veggie Garden update & we got a new 2nd plot!!!

The community garden is growing beyond our expectations:



'Lettuce' eat salad!

These happy greens are:
Romaine (the 4 big ones)
& left to right
Pak Choy & Butter Lettuce (very left)
Brunia (the babies) West Coast Seeds
mixed lettuce (butter, leafy green...)
Merlot (also West Coast Seeds)
& in the back, spinach, carrots, 'n' Super Sweet Peas!
(with green onions as a companion plant)

All that digging & amending & tending
is paying off in crunchy harvests.

Hard to believe that it used to be this...


Then we spent some time amending soil
and planted some seeds
&
then it looked like this....



When things popped up a little,
it started to look like this...



now it's flourishing into
this!


I can't wait until we can pick fresh sweet peas!
(It's been years since I've tasted one, you?)

And guess what else we are awaiting?
Wee baby grapes:



(We've heard that they'll grow up to be tasty red eating grapes) :)

And we're celebrating another delightful thing
that we never dreamed was possible:
we got a second plot this year!

Normally, we'd have to wait until next year to

get another plot at our community garden
(if there was one available)
but
this one needed a little immediate loving:



It had an over-sized 7 foot greenhouse that was
shading the neighbours veggies out.
&
Guess what menace lived in that greenhouse?

Man-Eating 14 foot weeds!!!

(That's a dose of hyperbole, of course...
but only a little. The weeds were taller than us!) ;)

I swear they were trying to get out of there:



If you look closely, you can see the little ropes
that the weeds have rigged up on the
roof of the green house:



They were planning on swinging out of there! I just know it. ;)

Methinks they were trying to take over the world:



But we fixed their wagon:



(Well, we're working on it...)

No more greenhouse thanks to our fab Neighbourhood Rep Jim.
And we've made a fair bit of progress.
C's sister, Denise, is helping us out. She's amazing!
We're going back this afternoon to continue
placing & filling the raised beds we built.

Can't wait to show you some more leafy green after pics, in the fall. :0)

Well off to go dig dirt!
Hope your day is a delight,