I must apologize for not being more active with this blog. I have been ill -- just a very nasty summer cold -- and busy. My wife and I are nearing the end of a looong remodeling project. The Parking Space Garden is doing very well.

The plants inside the greenhouse are doing very well. The tomatoes are 2 feet tall now and very healthy. Tomatoes planted outside in Seattle are barely alive.

Outside plants are slow, due to the coolest June on record in Seattle. Also, I think some of our Grow Boxes may not have gotten any fertilizer. That is easy to fix.

We've had our first harvest -- lettuce which we gave away to members of our congregation.

Meanwhile, my home Grow Boxes are doing very well. We have been eating the Broccoli. It is so tender and sweet, it doesn't need to be cooked.

Cool, wet weather in the Northwest

This week has been very cool (50's) and wet (1 in. of rain today) in the Pacific Northwest. Good for lettuce and the kales. Not good for tomatoes and eggplants. I'm glad I decided to include a greenhouse in the design of The Parking Space Garden.

The garden is practically complete now. This week I planted eggplant and more basil in the greenhouse. Outside I planted carrots, onions, kale, two kinds of zucchini and cucumbers. Within the next month, when all of these plants spread out, the garden will be full.

I also bought two pieces of concrete reinforcing mesh at Home Depot. I bent these into a rectangle which I set up over the tomato plants. This should give them a good strong support system as they grow vertically.