It's officially a garden!

When I bought the plot of land from the city of Columbus back March, it looked like this:

It looked like very nice dirt.  When I went back last week, it looked like this:

Just a few weeds had decided to pop up.  I hear that weeds are a good sign because it means at least something will grow.  But it meant that I had to do a fair amount of work before I could get anything planted.  I spent last Thursday working the land and was able to get two full rows sewn.  I planted the beets, onions, carrots, radish, spinach and musclun mix.

Side note: I found this tee-shirt this weekend but didn't buy it. I may have to go back.

I returned to the garden on Sunday and planted two more rows.  This time, I was joined by my faithful hedgehog, Pumpkin.  She helped by, errr, fertilizing the soil...

On Sunday, the buttercrunch, salad bowl and romain lettuce went it.  Also the herbs (oregano, cilantro and parsley).  I also got one tomato plant that was pre-started by the lovely people at Lowe's.  His name is Mr. Stripey, and no, I didn't come up with that.  Finally, I set up a pea trellis, but didn't plant any peas yet.

 I was accompanied by guest gardener, mom! Thanks mom!

 Today, I returned to the garden and found these little guys! They are little spinach sprouts.  Wahoo!!