More Garden 2020

This morning I decided to get a little exercise and be productive at the same time.  After all, this garden I want to have in-ground is not going to dig itself magically overnight.  So, I went out with my stroller (in case I needed to sit down all of a sudden) and the round pointed shovel.  This is what I accomplished:

 

You can see how rich and lush our soil in.  Not!!!  You can also see the shadow of the stroller and my finger over the lens.  Good work, Lady!!!  Maybe I will take another better photo some other day....Anyway,  this is about four feet wide and six inches deep.  Enough for one day.

Dear One mentioned to me at lunch time that the tomatoes were getting awfully leggy.  He is right.  SO...I decided to take the leggy-est one and plant it on the deck.  What can we lose?  Planting time down here is said to be around Good Friday.  That is a few weeks off but the full moon has already passed and, after all, this plant is, well, not ideal.  We shall see.

Looking at it, we all see that the plant is pitiful.  I hope it has at least a few happy days outside.

Since I was on a roll,  I thought I would throw in some yellow string bean seeds.  This is their new home:

More or less taking a page out of Mel Bartholomew's Square Foot Gardening book (which, by the way, I have not yet read...it comes in the mail tomorrow) I planted the seeds about 4 inches apart which is what the seed packet said though the seed packet also said in rows 21 inches apart.  We shall see.  Dear One loves yellow string beans.  Sadly, he does NOT love green string beans. 

In case you are wondering,  Dear One is still of the opinion that we need not to invest a lot in gardening.  You could have knocked me over with a feather when he said we can be like most other people in the country and buy our vegetables at the store or farmers' market.  Well, not tomatoes.  In my opinion. There is nothing like a juicy flavorful tomato right out of your garden.  Even if it does give you an itchy rash if you eat more than one at every meal...