Kitchen Ninja's little bit of green.

BEFORE: no arugula. AFTER: Arugula EVERYWHERE.

BEFORE: FEB NOW: MAY

LETTUCE! SPINACH! SNOW PEAS! ZUCCHINI! BUTTER LETTUCE! ARUGULA!CHIVES! and more tomatoes than i should have ever started back in feb. I got so excited after seeing j.me post a fantastic urban garden idea, that I had to post an update on my little garden out here in PDX.

L - R: chives, zucchini, butter lettuce, parsley. Front to Back: Heirloom tomatoes, cilantro,basil, strawberries and more heirlooms.

It may be small, but it's doing pretty well, and i've been having some pretty great salads since March. Hopefully the zucchini makes it, but they're looking pretty weak sauce.

It's totally a learning experience, and it's nice to know that my tiny piece of earth is a little greener.

~kitchen ninja

TIMBER!

Kitchen Ninja built a bench! Thanks to my Dad up in the gorge that supplied the scrap piece of wood and two logs. All I did was buy a box of nails, pick up a scrap piece of metal border material and slap it together. Below you can see the log, and the metal border stuff -I'm attaching it the back of the bench this evening. As you can see in my drawing at the top of this post, I plan with near engineer-like precision. down to the primroses and spiderwebs.

Just look at those little suckers! Heirloom tomato seedlings, hanging out in the sunny apartment, waiting for warmer temps so they can burst forth with weird and colorful tomatoes.

Below (from left to right) Snap Peas, Strawberries, Primroses, empty yellow pot (soon to be home of Basil), Thyme, BOTTOM: Red Lettuce and Spinach, Rocket and Butter crunch Lettuce.

THIS POST BROUGHT to YOU BY:

this awesome t-shirt from http://www.timberpreservationsociety.com/

and the Kitchen Ninja. She's got skills, Knife Skills.