Garden update:

Today Katie and I made furrows and mounds in the garden soil to prepare for planting the seeds, and then we planted them!

We fit five rows in our 8 feet of garden width, separating each mound by about 18 inches. Then we sowed five different seed types, one for each row:

1. Lettuce
2. Beets
3. Swiss Chard
4. Spinach
5. Basil

I wanted to plant all the seeds along the 9 feet long rows, but Katie wisely advised we only plant a third of the length of the row now to space out the harvest later, otherwise we would get a glut of each crop and then have a dearth shortly thereafter. I can’t argue with such logic!

Here is what our garden looks like now, but underneath the soil are the tiny seeds: