Garden update: harvest!

It's been a while since we posted anything about our crops. Hopefully your plants have been growing as well (or even better) than ours so far!

First of all, we have been uploading photos of our gardens regularly since early July. A slideshow showing the growth of our crops through time can be found on the right-hand side of the blog ("Watch the garden grow!").

And we also finally built our own spiral garden! We had to find bricks first, so we ended up making it quite late and our herb seedlings didn't really appreciate, but now it's up and the herbs are not doing that bad. Have a look!

Freshly made.

Freshly planted.

About a month later.

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We also started harvesting some of our crops and are waiting for others to fully ripen.

The rattlesnake beans.

The cherry tomatoes.

The peas.

The strawberry blite.

The spaghetti squash (so many!!).

The beets.

The ground cherries.

The pepper.

The sunflowers.

The tomatillos.

The tomatoes.

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Although our strawberry blite has started to die (we're not even sure if that's normal), a ton of strawberry blite seedlings have popped out of the grown to replace the dead plants.

Dying one by one.

Many strawberry blite seedlings replacing their parent plant. Obviously, the two bigger seedlings in the middle of the picture are strawberry blite, but so are all the tiny seedlings around them.

Basically a mat of seedlings. The pink-red berries of the strawberry blite can hold a good amount of seeds.

A close-up view of the seedling mat. Somewhat pleasant to look at.

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Quite a messy blog post, but we hope you enjoyed the photos. We'll close on a top view of the whole garden, taken this August 5, 2013. We'll be back with more news from the garden, some workshops and possibly other cool stuff for the school year!

We must admit it DOES look great!