Ah, our garden.  Well, we’ve had better luck in the past.  We’re not sure what happened, but this year is starting to resemble our sad garden from last year much more than our amazing garden from the year before.  A slide show of our so-far-not-so-impressive garden is available here.  This year we took the first step in making our garage roof “green.”  We built planter boxes, filled them with a mix of peat moss, vermiculite, and compost (per Mel’s instructions in the Square Foot Gardening book), and planted our seedlings up there.  We started seeds indoors back in March, but they all stopped growing after they reached a certain point.  They didn’t get all big and lush like the seedlings we see at the farmer’s market.  So we obviously have a lot to learn about starting from seeds. Still, we transplanted them and hoped for the best.  So far, they haven’t done much more growing outside than they did inside…

Other things we planted directly into the garden, like corn and sunflowers and lettuce and spinach and peas.  We didn’t get any peas to speak of, but we think maybe this was because of that one hot week we got in early spring.  We don’t know why we don’t have lettuce and we’ve never had any luck with spinach.  Our corn seems to be behind schedule, as do the sunflowers.  And nothing is taking off in leaps and bounds like we expected.  For some perspective, I looked back for pictures from our first (amazing) garden and am feeling a little more encouraged.  Things were bigger in June than they are currently in our garden, but still smaller than I remembered.

For quick reference, here’s a comparison shot of our garden from June 11, 2007.

This gives me hope that it’s still not too late for us to rescue our garden this year.  Remember, this is how our garden looked on July 11, 2007, just one month later. 

The good news is that our front yard blueberry bush is starting to produce!  We ate 6 delicious blueberries from it yesterday.  We bought another 2 bushes this year that appear to be slightly later bloomers than the one we planted last year, so we should have a pretty steady stream of blueberries for a while.  Mmmm!

Boy Cat heard me upstairs taking pictures and he came running up and got in a bunch of my shots.  He is such a camera hog!