Garden Weeks #5&6: Oh Yeah, I Have a Garden

I completely forgot to do a quick garden update last week. I'd like to blame it on Easter and General Conference and all that, but the truth is, I've been forgetting about my garden just a teensy bit (*gasp*). Not so much that everything has withered away and died for lack of attention or water. It's just that in the beginning I was out there all the time, and now that the plants are pretty much doing their own thing, there's little I have to do.

(Plenty of weeds for me to pull in the backyard, but I don't count that. Maybe by the time I'm forty we'll have cleared out the weed forest.)

Anyway, garden observations from the last two weeks: first, I got to eat my first two strawberries directly off a plant. Best strawberries I have ever tasted! Seriously better than any strawberry I've eaten from the store. Second, I think my composter is working. Maybe? All that stuff we've been dumping in the bin is turning into a brownish sludge. Obviously, something is decomposing, but I can't really see myself working this stuff into my garden soil. Terence says it will dry up a bit (he thinks). Who knows . . . this is all new territory for us. All I know for sure is that a compost bin breeds gnats in swarms. Somehow I don't remember the square foot garden guy mentioning that in his book.

Onward, ever onward! How long will it take until we get some tomatoes, I wonder?