Got Our Plants In Today

Great idea for the blog! And we're so excited to have some space to plant in - thanks to all for including us. We got some things planted today -- two tomato plants, two basil and a pepper plant, and we left space for a couple other herbs and a second pepper plant. CS, I left you a message today, we need to get together on who's planting where and if y'all are doing more. We went down the far side because I wasn't sure about the middle there. Saw what you must have put in though - looks great! And whose pineapple sage? YUM!

I was just thinking about all this wonderful rain and hoping our space isn't a complete mud puddle. I think tomorrow I may go spread some straw over and around our little bed - if anyone else wants some, we have a partial straw bale leftover from our fall porch decorations. It's in the woods behind our house right now. I need to check on it, but if it's still fairly tied together, maybe I can just bring the whole thing to the garden and put it in the far corner to be used as needed? Anyone else think they'd use some? The last thing I want to do is take up space that would be used for something else.

Anyway, looking forward to this endeavor - our first gardening experience. BB, thanks again for starting the blog!

RC

New Strawberries!

Yesterday we planted 8 new strawberry plants in the "BAB" plot. 2 of them have fruit on them already and the other 6 are 2nd year plants from our garden last year that failed because of too much shade. But these plants came back and they were producing fruit in our yard as well so hopefully we'll get a decent crop of berries in June! We've noticed many of the other gardens have netting or chicken wire around their berries to protect them from birds and other critters. We're going to watch and see if we'll need to do this as well.

There has been lots of slow steady rain this afternoon so thanks to Mother Nature, we didn't need to go water today. Green bean seeds are quickly coming up as are the squash plants we planted in mounds. Carrots and radishes are poking though too. I'm very anxious for the tomatoes to grow bigger, they look kinda sad right now as do the pepper plants. It's still pretty cool though but the broccoli seems to like it!
-BB

Welcome!

Hello! This is a blog for the 6 families to communicate their experiences with our shared garden spot at the Sewanee Community Garden. Many of us are fairly new to gardening and with so many people in one place, I thought it might be nice to have a common location for updates, news, successes, etc. I also thought it would be fun to post recipes once we start getting (hopeful here!) some of the fruits of our labors. The first task is to name our blog, I temporarily named it Grow Sewanee, which we can keep, but if you're feeling more clever than I, feel free to submit ideas and we can decide what we like. We can also change layout, add features, etc. as we see fit. Let me know if you have questions/ideas and happy gardening!
-BB