This year, besides the main garden, we’re making a side garden. It has been a lot of work and we still haven’t finished, but we’re making some progress. The small veggie garden is finished and mostly planted. I’ve planted 4 out of 5 beds, the last bed hasn’t been planted so that my hubby can work on the support wall for the second terrace. He will make a wall once he finishes the new steps. He made half of the steps and if things go well they should be finished by the end of next week.

The veggies in the new garden are growing well, some are growing faster and others are slowlier. The right side of the garden gets more sun, and the veggies on this side grow much quicker than the veggies on the least two beds.

On the first two beds, I’ve sown beans, radishes, planted peppers, and a couple of tomatoes. The best growing vegetable in the bed are beans, which seem to enjoy the new location. The radishes are making excellent progress, tomatoes have started growing, and peppers are still trying to recuperate from the hail at the end of April.

I’m still not sure the veggies in the left two beds were the right choice. I’ve sown chard and carrots on the two beds and I’m still waiting to be able to see them. The soil which we got was from a field. I knew that and I was actually expecting lots of grass and weeds, but instead, I have vegetable seedlings all around the garden. There are so many different plants that I actually can’t be sure where my chard and carrots are. I will wait until I’m able to see exactly what I’m dealing with, and then I’ll decide what I’ll keep and which weeds I will pull out. One thing is certain besides the weeds, carrots, and chard I will most likely have “wild” potatoes, tomatoes, and lettuce on the same beds. 

The bed with onions and lettuce has also been full of surprises. Due to the cold and the storms, my sown lettuce has just started growing, so I didn’t dig the sown parts of this bed either. Because I waited, now I’ve noticed that this bed is actually full of carrots. I’ve got baby carrots growing everywhere. I will most likely let them grow here. Lettuce and onions don’t have deep roots, so carrots should have enough space. Also, due to all the storms, and the flood of the bed that the rain caused twice, my hubby built an improvised cover for this bed. Actually, the cover was made 10 minutes before another storm that was coming our way, but luckily it moved a few km east and we only got normal rain. Still, we concluded this cover could actually work, and that’s why my hubby will make a permanent one with transparent nylon. I will have to water the bed due to the cover, but I’d rather water it than watch it get damaged by the storms.

Right now everything is crowded on the first terrace, but once the second terrace is finished I will move the seedlings, brassicas, and deck chairs to the second terrace and leave only a table on the first terrace. Hubby will paint the concrete to refresh it and then the side garden should look decent.