Our garden's doing great! We used about half the seed kit to make a raised 5' x 16 ' bed of organic black earth mixed with compost that gets about 6 hours direct sunlight a day. The first harvest of radishes were delicately sweet, and have become much spicier as time passes. We have been picking the 5-colour swiss chard for several weeks now; but can distinguish only three colours: yellow, green, and red. Also thinned out the beets a little later than recommended; and as a result we very much enjoyed eating a few little beet buds raw in our salads. The beet greens are a tasty addition too.
All three types of beans are blooming now. Only about half the squash survived the initial sprouting. It looked as if they had been chewed off at ground-level by cutworms. Have since been advised by a friend that one way to foil cutworms is to surround the seeds with an open-ended frozen orange juice cylinder pushed all the way down into the ground.
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