More planting, definite nibbling

Back to City People's Garden store this morning:

• 1 Orange Balsam thyme, already in flower;
• 1 French thyme, not flowering;
• 1 Greek oregano;
• 1 pot of nasturtium seedlings;
• 1 red "Colossus" pansy (two plants; one in flower, a smaller one not);
• 3 gallons of fresh compost tea (still warm);
• 1 watering can (turns out to hold just short of 2 gallons)

Came straight home to start mixing the compost tea one watering-can full at a time and pouring it on the garden, while it's still fresh. Doused the plants as well as the soil. A little over one gallon of tea went on the two small lower beds (with a little over four gallons of water), a little under two gallons went on the large upper bed (with a little over eight gallons of water.) I measured out another two gallons of water on each of the lower beds and another four gallons on the upper bed. That's 21 gallons of water total, and seemed to be all the soil would hold.

Oh, and I put the new plants in, too! The nasturtium divided into four seedlings.

Something is definitely nibbling on some of the lettuce plants, some onion plants, the cucumber and zucchini and pumpkin plants. The cukes are eaten down almost to the stems.
Chewed zucchini:

I sprinkled cayenne pepper around the plants nibbled on, and a few others.

First Planting: Part 2

Got my photos today! Much better pictures of our first planting!

Here's the fraternity volunteers who built 2/3rds of our raised-bed garden and helped us do our first planting, with Shelby on the far right:

The stars of the show:



Here's another guy taking pictures.



Later we'll get a copy of his photos of the three residents who worked on the garden: Jean, David, and me. The rest of my photos are all of the garden:

From the bottom:


Off to the right, toward the railyard:


Off to the left, toward the bus stop:


Close-up of part of the herb bed: peppermint, golden sage, peony (really petunia) and marigolds: