My Garden - PIC heavy - 1st harvest - Post 38

[ams3651]

great use of tires, I was thinking of planting my leaf lettuce in a couple and maybe something else.

 

[ruth]

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I used a lot of information on companion planting from the book:

Carrots love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte. She describes which plants benefit one another and which don't - which have shallow roots and can be planted with those that have deeper roots. You can probably tell from the pics that everything is planted very close together with a number of different types of plants all taking up the same space. So far it is working well.

 

[halo]

Beautiful pictures; cant believe you have all of them already, that lettuce looks gorgeous! Why are you planting in boxes in stead of in the ground? Did you add your own soil to the boxes, or did you buy soil?

 

[b.hromada]

What a beautiful garden!! You certainly must have a green thumb. You should be proud, wonderful job!!

 

[Boyd]

I am so jealous!!!!! My plants are in the ground 6 days, and we have 2 frost warnings.... sigh, guess I'm getting up at 4am again to wet down the plants

 

[wyo-helpmeet]

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Yeah, me too, LOL

It looks fabulous!

 

[chickenannie]

Gorgeous!
I'm jealous too... my tomatoes just went in today and yesterday!
Enjoy good eatin' this year.

 

[ruth]

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I bought a number of books and it seemed that raised beds would be easiest for me. They are just frames, so no bottoms. We have red clay soil that much of nothing will grow in. I had a big pile of rich, dark garden soil that a prior owner left in the front pasture no telling how many years ago. I had it dug up and hauled to the back where I built my garden. I made the frames by cutting 4x4s the same width as my 1x4s so all I had to do was use the electric drill to drill pilot holes and then screw in the nail. I found I didn't have the strength, even with electric screwdriver, to get the screws to go in without first starting pilot holes. So, it was really, really easy. Then I just placed them where I wanted them and filled them with the garden soil, some barnfloor "dirt", and some compost dirt. I didn't dig up the sod under the boxes, just figured if the roots needed more room they could grow through. Next year, I may take the dirt out and dig down and make the depth deeper by taking out the red clay soil and adding better dirt.

I figured building the boxes would be easier for me (since I do it all alone) than trying to rent a tiller and till it up, besides the red clay wouldn't have been something I could plant in anyway and I wanted a permanent garden that I would not have to do so much work next year. I'll just add more compost and keep replanting.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

OH MAN OH MAN!!! That looks wonderful! What planting zone are you in?!! OH MAN!!! To have fresh veggies all ready!!

I'm in zone 7. We can get frost as late as April 20th!! Not to mention my "pigs" got into my garden and ate it ALL the other day

 

[bayouchica]

I'm so jealous, beautiful garden you got there.Those Jerusalem artichokes are getting big.

Those tomatoes look sooo good.

Okay, I'm headed your way with a salt shaker,lol.