watching the garden grow

I am a little obessed with my tiny little garden. In this photo you can see that the lettuce, spinach and beans are growing...hooray. This little garden is only 3.5' x 3.5' but I managed to fit in spinach, lettuce, beans and patio tomatoes. Everything seems to be doing well. It will be so nice to eat something that I have grown myself. I can't wait. I also did a little soil test (ph test for $1.90) which was purchased @ Halifax Seed. I just had to take some soil (4" down), put enough in up to a line that is marked for you, break open the capsule that comes with the kit and pour that in, then you add distilled water up to another line marked for you. You put the top on the tube and give it a shake. The water will be anywhere from yellow to orange to green. Mine was green which is fairly neutral. All should be well. You don't want your soil to acidic (unless you planted plants that love that) or too alkaline. Sort of the same rules that we have for people. You don't want a diet that is too alkaline or too acidic. If your soil is not in the neutral zone, there are many ways to fix that. Just look them up online because the ideas are endless.