I don't want to spend too much time on it, but I've also been working three raised beds, and now some pots as well, at home.

Overall, even though I have lots of sun, I apparently don't have as much as the Robbins Farm garden (and of course, there are other variables as well), I have been faring only so-so, despite an appearance of verdance. (Is that a word?) First, some over-all shots:

You can see a bunch of onion plants on the left vertical photo, and they were among my disappointments. Though I got a couple of spring onions, they seemed not to thrive (perhaps I was just impatient) and I eventually pulled them to accommodate tomato plants I'd planted too close together elsewhere. I feel bad about them in part because they were gifts that my friend, Jeremy, nurtured from seed.

I'm also disappointed with four bean bushes I purchased. I'm not sure how well it translates visually, but the problem here is that there are not beans on these bushes! These are in the bed that I botched by using mulch as soil, along with the compost and athe actual soil, and I can't help but wonder if that's part of the problem. They have given me a few beans, but I was expecting quite a bit more than I've gotten.

My biggest surprise of the growing season so far has been the collards. Well, not exactly. The collards I've been growing (poorly; they're too close to the tomato plants) were thinned from Robbins Farm garden.

The collards I was referring to were supposed to be kale: When I went Wilson Farms to buy them, the collards were out, so I settled for kale. The twist is that the kale was actually kohlrabi, and I ended up with 7 plants, because one of the six pack was double-seeded. It took me a while to realize that I didn't actually have kale, a while longer to realize it was probably kohlrabi, and longer still to look up on the internet what one actually does with kohlrabi. I've pulled two of them, again to accommodate other plants, and I was underwhelmed by them. We've still got five more coming, to experiment further with.

Finally, I'm pleased to say that my cabbages, after appearing to grow inedible leaves aimlessly for weeks and weeks, now appear to be produce the little balls I know of as cabbages. I'll have to wait to learn if they'll get as big as what I see at the market.

But I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about it, OK?