I had one singular goal this summer and that was to make a garden that would harvest salad that I could eat. We have roughly one week left until it’s officially Fall and I feel like a garden update is needed.
I have good news and I have bad news.
The bad news is that half my garden died. I put too many plants in my little raised bed. The cabbage, zucchini, and tomato plants FLOURISHED and the spinach, strawberries, and squash all went to hell in a hand basket. Who knew cabbage took up so much space? The lesson I learned here is that when the package a plant comes in says to space other plants 2 to 3 feet away…it should be given some consideration.
The good news is that we got tomatoes, baby carrots, cabbage and zucchini and TECHNICALLY…that’s a salad folks! Albeit, perhaps not the best tasting salad and I still haven’t actually ‘harvested’ the cabbage because I don’t know how…but I’ll take it!
I win at half living gardens!
Next year? I’m sticking with ONE tomato plant, strawberries, and maybe something else that I actually eat and that doesn’t take up 5 feet of growing space. Cabbage is a hog.
Now what do I do with this thing until next Spring? Pull all the plants out? Cover it? Bury it?