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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 2407727" data-attributes="member: 259">Gardening is RIDICULOUSLY exciting.  I am constantly thrilled by seeing what new crop is springing up.This year's garden for us is pretty good:  it's two 9x3 beds (approximately) in which we're growing:-Mixed lettuce-Other mixed greens, plus arugula (kind of like rotten-skunk-in-a-leaf)-Green onions-Parsley and cilantro-Carrots-Green beans (which are absurdly good when fresh:  they've got a deep rich flavor almost reminiscent of coffee or chocolate)-Sweet peas (gone now, replaced by cucumbers and squash last week)-Three varieties of tomatoes-Basil-Strawberries (which won't fruit till next year, but which are going wild in the bed we gave them out back)Lettuce is very very easy to grow, in my experience, and a couple square feet of it will produce more salad than you ever want to eat, except that the salad is delicious.  The tomato plants are bowed down by the weight of their fruit, but they're all green right now, due to the cold spring we had; by the end of July, I think we'll be making tons of sauce.  The basil plants are about three or four feet tall, and I just had some of our first batch of pesto this year; come September or so, we'll cut down all the basil and spend a day filling the freezer with cubes of pesto to last us all winter.We rely on The Vegetable Gardener's Bible as our main resource.  Its philosophy is:-Wide beds-Dug very deep-Filled with organic material (mostly compost)it works very well:  we're able to get a tremendous amount of material out of our relatively small spot, and the close planting shades out weeds so much that we only need to weed every couple of weeks.Daniel</blockquote>

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