Gardening 2025

This year we split the garden into 4 quadrants. Each member of the family got their own quadrant to name, plan, plant, weed, and harvest.

• Doug: Cash is Clay (the crummiest soil with a big path running through it)
• Sara: Make Gardening Great Again (a decent plot with an ever growing mint patch)
• Julia: Worms Welcome (some super soil with some annoying roots from the maple tree)
• RJ: Who 'dat Seed (some good parts, bad parts, and weedy parts)

RJ's section featured an mis-mash of unlabeled seeds. His plan was to plant anything he could put in a salad. After a super fast start ... Who 'dat Seed turned into Who 'dat Weed.

March 16: RJ plans some of his science experiments (beans, lettuce, radishes)

The 4 quadrants (Ginger was not allowed in)

March 23: Tilled and ready to go ... RJ's early plants didn't make it

May 11: Crops starting to come in, RJ getting radishes, lettuce

July 11: garden producing cucumbers (a lot!), cherry tomatoes, squash (yellow and zucchini)

Aug 23: garden producing cantaloupe, lots of cucumbers, very large zucchini, and gross beans

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Sept 4: Doug was eating a lot of cantaloupe, Julia got her first (and only) watermelon

Oct 26: patience pays off, Cash-is-Clay hauled in ~10-15 peppers and some large tomatoes

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Lessons Learned:

• People work harder when they 'own' their land
• Starting the garden on March 9 is too early
• Cramming 20 cantaloupe plants into a small area results in a lot of small vines and little fruit
• Granddad was right about planting watermelon (again)
• RJ started on fire with lots of lettuce and radishes, but lost focus
• If you want awesome peppers ... get started early and make sure the plants get lots of sun
• Nothing except some random kale grows in the back garden by the new shed
• The plan to take pictures every month didn't pan out