My "Skinny" Vegetable Garden

My "skinny" vegetable garden
In the Garden: The reason for calling this "My Skinny Vegetable Garden", is because so far I just don't have enough of any one vegetable. My Sweet Peas for example, (I planted three) gave me one "snack size" zip-loc bag full! Hardly enough to feed my Family of four. The title of this should have been "Garden Rant" instead because that is what it is turning out to be! I do hope this "rant" will help you fellow gardeners in some way. Maybe now you will know the importance in planting enough. As I now know! Commencing rant, the Fractal Broccoli I babied from seed have yet to "head", and now it is just too hot for them to probably do so! (Future fix for this might be mulching to keep the soil cooler and installing a shade clothe over them to also cool them down.) So we will see if actual Broccoli will be eaten. If not, I swear I am going to eat the leaves! Then there is the sole Cabbage plant. He has a pretty good head forming, BUT in each layer is cabbage worm POOP! Really not looking forward to slicing into that and eating it! (Lesson, use an organic cabbage worm getter rid of-er from the get go! Me hand picking them off every day is just not enough.)

Cabbage

What else? Oh the Carrots. I planted these Heirloom 'Dragon' Carrots seeds directly in the garden early Spring and, although they are doing very well, there is only like eight plants that really set! Eight carrots will not go past ONE meal! The same goes for the Beats I sowed in the Spring. The number is only three though! Ugh! Now, all the above is talking about the "cool weather" crops and there lack-of success in my garden. The lack-of success though is ALL my fault and I have learned from it and it has not deterred me from growing all the same things once again. Now I know I want to plant a larger quantity, in nice long rows, in the Fall and in the Spring, that I will need to seed and re-seed more and not just except what decides to sprout the first time as it. The hot weather crops I have planted will probably be beefed up real soon, I do not want to repeat the same mistake again! Happy Gardening people!

Dragon Carrot

Cabbage

Beats

Fractal Broccoli

Dragon Carrots