Watch our community garden grow
The Indiana Humanities Council is spearheading a victory garden in our backyard, complete with rain-collecting trenches and barrels.
Keep an eye on our progress, here!
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- Day 1: compost and rain collecting materials delivered.
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- After laying the foundation–cardboard, leaves, straw, compost, we were finally able to plant away!
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- Radishes poke through the compost!
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- It’s amazing what a little sun–and a lot of rain–can do!
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- We’ve got peas!
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- Thanks to those April showers, our peas have shot up toward the fence!
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- Our biggest plant in the garden–the broccoli is flourishing.
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- Spinach fields forever…
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- A salad with swiss chard is just a few days away!
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- Our radishes are almost ready!
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- The peas are climbing!
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- Hello radishes!
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- Cilantro is our fastest growing herb so far.
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- The peas have begun climbing the fence.
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- Red Russian Kale.
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- Broccoli Raab.
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- Our rain barrels are FULL!
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- Lovely lettuce for a salad.
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- MMM fresh cilantro!
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- Snap peas are almost ready to be harvested.
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- Round two of the garden includes a mix of pepper and eggplant varieties.
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- Round 2 also included tomatoes, basil and squash.
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- Green beans grow alongside eggplants.
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- We have one, little, purple pepper sprouting!
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- Several squash and zucchini plants.
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- The broccoli is almost ready!
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- We have lots of herbs, including this beautiful parsley.
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- The chives stand watch over the herb bed.
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- We have several varieties of basil.
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- Little tomatoes start to form!
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- Lots of tomatoes are on the way!
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- It’s the year of the tomato at the State Fair–and at the Council.
[...] at home (by my own free will), and this year, a gardener at work (check out pictures of our garden, here), which exposed me to an even larger assortment of vegetables. I had gone 26 years without eating a [...]