Seattle, WA - It was 10 minutes away from setting a new record for the longest span without rain since 1982 where it lasted 29 days.
It was at the beginning of this long stretch of rainless weather in Seattle that I started planting my first garden. I planted a few vegetables that were starter plants from Home Depot and also a couple packets of Boston Pickling cucumber seeds. I was really surprised when almost all of them sprouted.
When I was younger my friend's grandfather used to grow cucumbers and make pickles that were so incredibly good I knew that I would try it someday.
So I'm thinking I should have quite a nice turnout eventually, but without any experience in this I'd be happy just to get a couple to grow and produce.
Here are some pictures of the plants.
The overall view:
Cucumbers where I started the seeds, and three starter plants:
The cucumber patch that I had to move from the original location to here simply due to the overwhelming number of seeds that sprouted:
The tomato plant, one of three:
I don't like tomatoes, these are for the girls.
The jalapeno plant just produced a flower, can't wait to see the pepper!
The blue lake beans, don't know why their called blue lake but I did put some bamboo sticks in for them to climb.
And some walla walla onions which I'm anxious to try because I love onions.
The anticipation of this garden to produce has been a lot of fun. Aside from battling the slugs, aphids, and other insects that are feasting on them, I have confidence that it should grow some good stuff. I haven't done a ton of reading about gardening so I'm open to hear tips and suggestions. One thing I think might be worth doing is that black paper or felt, that you lay down to prevent the weeds from growing, and I do need to do something about the bugs. I tried an organic spray but it left some black spots on many of the plants so I won't use anything other than natural from now on. I hear that there is a lady bug guy in Seattle that sells ladybugs to release in the garden to eat the other bugs. I don't think it will solve the slug problem, but maybe the aphids.
