Mars Farm Update: Starting to Eat Things! Plus A Vicious Attack!

This weekend on Mars Farm, we got our first taste of what's been growing -- it was time to thin the arugula, lettuce, beets, & collards, and there were so many sprouts by the end of it, that we both got to eat a big bowl of fresh Mars salad for lunch on Saturday.

Tonight, I think we'll be having more salad with dinner -- the big head of lettuce on the front porch (the winter planting's lone survivor of the January cold snap) is calling my name, & the mustard greens in the front window are getting out of control again.

Here's how it looked on the front porch on Saturday morning, before I got started:

Here's how it looked in the back yard:

Zoey's contribution lately has been stepping on plants as she tries to eat the grass behind the beds. Very unhelpful.

Then, overnight on Saturday, Mars Farm came under attack from unknown Critter or Critters, digging around in the dirt:

trampled collards

a near miss for the favas

almost all of the second planting of spinach is gone

I would post Zoey out there to stand guard, but I'm pretty sure she would do just as much damage, trying to get at that grass.