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Finally, some photos. Crappy cell phone photos taken at high noon, but still.

This is the shadier bed:



The shadier bed is planted with mesclun lettuce mix, mustard, arugula, kale, broccoli, chard, leeks, yellow onions, beets, radishes, jalapenos, sandia red chile, yellow peppers, bok choi, and nasturtiums.

This is the sunnier bed:



The sunnier bed is planted with sunflowers, corn, beans, tomatoes, boxwood basil, Thai and Italian basil, oregano, creeping thyme, and nasturtiums.  The overturned cups are acting as lids for the ollas Dave made and buried in the ground next to the tomato plants.

Here are some close-up pics of the plants in the shadier bed:



Broccoli, chard, radishes.



Mesclun lettuce mix, oakleaf lettuce, arugula, kale.



A few cubic square feet of seeds (carrots, mache, and...something else...mustard maybe)  just now starting to crop up.



Dave carefully planted the radish seeds 16 seeds per square foot.



Leeks in front with cilantro behind. (The cilantro in the shade is doing better than the cilantro in full sun.)

These tomatoes (all the tomatoes, as a matter of fact) are planted in the sunny bed. This is the Cherokee Purple that we bought in the gallon-size at the Co-Op. It already has fruit on it that grow visibly from day to day.



It wasn't until this year that I learned that tomatoes are classified as determinate and indeterminate. This (and I think all the tomatoes we have so far) are indeterminate, so we're looking at eating a lot of tomatoes this summer.

This is the corn field:



There are twenty-six square feet of corn (one plant per square foot). This morning Kelly thinned and transplanted the seedlings to make it so. I definitely don't have the heart for thinning. 

This afternoon I planted two varieties of beans between the rows of corn. Tomorrow I'll plant two rows of snap peas. (I would've done it today, but I didn't read the package and so didn't know that the seeds need to be soaked for 12-14 hours before planting. Oops.)

Some observations:


We're watering (well, over-watering probably) twice a day. (The second watering is really to make sure that the seedlings don't dry out.) 


The plants at the end of the sunnier bed (the herbs mostly and the nasturtiums) are not thriving. Guesses as to why so far include over-watering, too much sun, and too much compost.  Maybe it's a combination of all three.

The bok choi and broccoli are already bolting in the heat.


The cats have so far declined to sully their paws by using the beds as a litter box. Saba is really well trained and comes in from outdoors to use the inside litter box. Gray Kitty--well, we don't know where he does most of his business, but he doesn't seem to like the soft, moist soil on his paws.


The only thing consumed from the garden thus far is a single radish sprout that Kevin plucked and ate. (No, maybe that's not true. Kelly tasted some of the chard, too, I think.)