First 'Harvest'

The first batch of radishes are ready for harvest!

Behind the watering can you can see the bucket of horsetail tea I'm making for the garden.  (Horsetail, btw, is my second least favorite 'weed' behind buttercups right now.)  Apparently if you soak them in water and then use the water (in a 1:10 ratio with non-horsetail water), it's good for your plants.  One of the garden coordinators told me this and I did some research online and decided it wouldn't hurt to try.  Of course, I will not be able to provide any definitive results as this is not a controlled study - I don't even have a control group!  Maybe next year.

Things in the first box I planted are growing well: two types of spinach, two types of lettuce, two types of kale, nasturtiums, and radishes.  Sweet 'Elenor' peas are coming up behind the box, along the fence.

Unfortunately, something is eating the new leaves in the second box.  I didn't see any slug trails or anything (neighbours in the garden have said that there is a slug problem out there) but it did rain since the last time I was at the garden so it's hard to say if it was slugs or not.

I'll keep an eye on things and enjoy my radishes, for now :) (Btw, not my lettuce in the background, but I wish it was!  Someone else's greenhouse project.)