And now we return...

After some technical difficulties (mostly caused by my own stupidity) I am back in the blogosphere.

The planting season is over and it was a busy one for me. Being that we're on more of a budget this year, our tiny garden got more seeds this year. Previously we've done a lot of started plants from the nursery. The good news about seeds is that as they are cheap, it's easier to take a few risks.

We pared back the herb selection to just the few we really use - cilantro, dill, rosemary, and basil. I planted a mint in a pot but there is still plenty of up popping up EVERYWHERE from when I planted it in the ground a few years ago.

For veggies we did four hot peppers and a green bell pepper, cucumber, sugar snap peas, several tomatoes, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, an acorn squash, and just for fun - a "Minnesota Melon" (it looks like a variety of cantaloupe).

Oh, and the great potato experiment! We planted five potato buckets, something that is apparently quite common in the UK. I really didn't have high hopes for my potatoes but they ended up looking like bushes! I wish we had used larger buckets as you are supposed to keep mounding them for more spuds but we ran out of room. We'll see our finished product in a couple of weeks, the earliest plant has already died off.

We're having mild bunny trouble but not too bad. Saffy the dog barks from the fence and hopefully scares them off a bit. My biggest challenge has been weeds. When growing from seed it's very hard to tell seedling from weed for several weeks, so I didn't dare pull anything. (I planted in rows, but they weren't well marked.) Bits of my garden are rather overrun but I just try to pull a few handfuls every day as I walk through.

I'd like to find a green option to kill everything over the winter, the spreading mint and the weeds alike. We really only have one desired perennial in the herb garden, the chive, and I can get another cutting from Mom easily enough.

Well, that's about two months summed up in one post. Whoo hoo! More later. :)