Container Garden Still Going

It's been nearly a month since I posted pictures of our little container "garden", so I thought it was time for an update.

The green onions are growing nicely, and should be full grown in another 4 to 6 weeks.


The mixed lettuce is growing like crazy, and we've already started harvesting some of it for salads.


Same with the spinach, and I'm thinking that I'm going to start picking some and adding it into my smoothies.


The tomato plant is growing, but I think we started too early with this one. A couple of big cold fronts and some near-freezing nights didn't help it any. But maybe it'll end up producing some fruit.


The strawberry is coming along okay.


The carrots, unfortunately, are not. Jack and James had some kind of argument over the weekend, and rather than kill each other, they tried to kill each others' plants. I think in this case, one of them might have succeeded.


The parsley is growing like crazy, and I've been harvesting it fairly regularly.


The chives are growing just fine. And tasting good, too. Does this make me a real farmer now?

Some of this oregano is simmering away in my spaghetti sauce right now.


Some of this basil, too.


I haven't been cooking with much coriander (except for my Mexican Vegetable Soup), so if this one keeps growing, I might have to harvest and dry it.


The thyme is doing fine, and also might end up being dried. I used some for the fish on Sunday night, and I might do a roast chicken this weekend and use a bit more.


At first I thought that this was another victim of Jack and James' little weekend war, but after looking back at the pics I took last month, I remembered that this was the dill, one of Tom's early victims. I was worried that there would be more after he saw me picking herbs and snipping chives, or seeing Karen picking lettuce, but he seems to have gotten the message that he should only "help" in the garden when Mum or Dad ask him to.


So far, this is going better than I'd thought it would. Karen and I tried this about a dozen or so years ago, spent hundreds of dollars and ended up killing pretty much everything. If I remember correctly, it was mainly because we never remembered to water anything, but with all the rain we've had lately, that hasn't been a problem this time around. I mean, essentially we aren't doing much of anything. When I'm plucking leaves off something, I check a few pots to make sure the soil is moist, I poke around looking for signs that something's eating our "crops", and so far it's all been fine, and I just go back inside and keep cooking.

Now that's my kind of farming.