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

[ruth]

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Hey girl come one. I'm picking snow peas and the cucumbers will be ready in a few days. Nothing like a fresh cucumber with salt and pepper or vinegar, salt, pepper.

I'll meet you at the picnic table.

 

[coloradochick]

Monique, HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!

May your next 50 be as rewarding as the first!

 

[ams3651]

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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.

I love that book, I have people calling me all the time to look something up for them.

 

[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.

I love that book, I have people calling me all the time to look something up for them.

It is a great book - I highly recommend it. It was so simply written that even I, a city girl who had never had a vegetable garden, could understand it.

The other book I bought - and I think I got both at TSC - was:

"The Vegetable Gardener's Bible" by Edward Smith. He has such beautiful color photos and easy step by step instructions for everything from building the box frames to how to harvest and store the vegetables. It's a joy to read, almost like a great novel. It's more of a picture book that anything and keeping it simple was what I needed. His system is what I used, the "W.O.R.D" system - Wide rows; Organic methods; Raised beds; Deep soil. When you see the pics of his crop, all interplanted and all huge you realize you don't have to have same ole same ole long boring garden rows.

The raised beds are just wide enough and spaced just far enough apart that they are easy to work. I can easily sit on the ground between the two beds and can reach to the middle of each to weed, then I can move to the other side.

 

[Javamama]

I love your garden! I hope mine starts to look even half as good in the coming months. I think I'm going to have to get that book on companion planting, it's exactly what I want to do. Way to go!

 

[The Chicken People]

Beautiful garden!! I am starting my first garden this year but now have decided on raised beds for next year! Love the tires and I have an endless supply ...My Man the mechanic!! I may line my front yard with them and plant flowers!!!

 

[Sillystunt]

wow i feel lazy....lol I have garden envy!!!

I started some things in pots but my darn chickens ate them all! So my husband fenced off a small part for me but it's way to small unless i do a pot garden...wait that sounded wrong, a garden in pots.

I keep having tomato's split on me and my eggplant just doesn't want to grow. I usually have a green thumb but Florida challenges me! Molds and bugs that i just can't control.

I have some seeds (brocc, cauliflower, beans, watermelon) but i am scared to even start them now cause it's soooooooooooo hot! Even my drought tolerent plants are dying.

Swear we should have moved to NC insted of Florida...lol

 

[JennsPeeps]

Wowza! I'm in WA State and my garden pretty much looks like this:

dramatization

 

[ruth]

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Thanks, that gave me a real chuckle.

 

[wyo-helpmeet]

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Mine actually DOES look like that right now, LOL