My veggie garden was better this year than it was last year, but still not the best it could be. The soil at La Casa is pretty clay-ey and veggies often struggle to grow, even with plenty of amendments and fertilizing. So I tried more containers this year and that's where I had my greatest success.
I have several "salad bowls" going. I plant lettuce seeds every other week and that keeps us in salads. I also had great success with growing basil from seed-- something that fellow gardeners tell me is difficult to do. However, I learned long ago not to rest on my gardening laurels. My first veggie garden at La Casa produced a prodigious yield of basil and tomatoes and I smugly proclaimed myself a gardening genius. The next two harvests were downright pathetic and I was suitably chastised. Pride goeth before a fall...
It is probably just psychological, but I swear I feel especially energized when I eat a salad made from La Casa's garden produce. So I have started the winter garden, sowing radish, carrot, beet, arugula, spinach and lettuce seeds in a raised bed of my own design to keep the goodness growing.
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