No Self Control

Seattle Tilth hosted their 25^th annual Edible Plant Sale this past weekend. I went to the sale with a carefully plotted list, but upon arrival, I lost all self-control and came home with 49 plants. As you can see they barely fit in the trunk of our car. I bought 6 different tomatoes, 6 peppers, 1 eggplant, 2 artichokes, a winter and a summer squash, and tons of herbs. I think it will definitely be a tasty summer at our house.

I’m super excited to get all our new plants in the ground, but there is just one problem: our new kitchen garden is not quite finished. On Saturday, we rented a sod cutter machine and cut out a big chunk of our back lawn.

It was awesome.

In less than an hour we removed an expanse of weedy grass and, voila!, we had a new place to grow food. It was pretty much the most productive and useful thing I’ve done in a long time.

This week we are going to finish up building the raised beds (only 3 more to go) and I’ve ordered up a big load of compost and some topsoil to be delivered. Hopefully by next Monday I can show off some photos of our new garden, but in the meantime I thought you might want to see some scenes from the plant sale extravaganza.