Mid-May Garden Update

The garden is really humming along. Eli and I did have one mishap from planting too early. We lost the first tomato plant we added too frost. I just couldn't help myself and planted too early.

We have harvested some romaine lettuce. Used it in a salad and also on Tuesday for Taco night.

The newest and maybe most fun edition is a pepper plant from my friend Needham. Needham works with my and lives in North Carolina. He is in Bloomington, IN this week helping IU with a project for work. There is a pepper lady in Bloomington and Needham is a hug pepper fan. So he bought some peppers for himself and picked up a Cascabel pepper for me. When harvested I am going to dry and then grind these peppers and use them in chili and similar dishes.

Happy Cascabel Pepper.

Here are some photos of how the rest of the garden is going. From bottom left, we just planted cucumber seeds. Then there are peas (Eli and I need to create a trellis). There is broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, then spinach, lettuce, romaine, onions, then some carrots, more lettuce and a broccoli.

The other box is not quite as full yet. Starting at the bottom left we have a grape tomato plant, the cascabel, then some beans we planted as seeds and a bean plant Eli grew in school, and finally a regular tomato.