Mitchell likes to plant the veggie garden and I think
he enjoys watering it, but he's not all that interested in the harvest. We planted beets last year and put them way too close together. We didn't really get anything edible, so his interest level in big, red root vegetables was pretty low this spring.That's never stopped me if I wanted something, so I planted four rows of beets in the middle of his "square foot garden" using about two square's worth. I'm not much on thinning seedlings, so I planted them 3-4 inches apart and hoped for a good percentage germination. And voila' - I got beets.
Remember that issue I have with forgetting to write down the planting date? and the number of days until harvest? I wonder why I even bother to keep a garden journal? It seems like that would be a good place to keep information like that. Perhaps I will try it - someday.At least beets are a bit more helpful than the peas were. I could tell when their "shoulders" started pushing up that they were getting "done", so I started harvesting.
We got three good, full harvests that yielded four dinners and a huge jar of pickled beets.
What more could a girl ask for? Actually.... okra. Soon. Stay tuned.
