Garden 2009
 

Heh heh! The previous years garden threads went in Quality Images, Home Base, and Nothingland, depending on who started it. Now it goes in Food and Drink.

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And I'm in this year. Having a strapping 22-year-old lad around to haul stuff is a fine advantage. I ordered a yard of compost to fill in what was lost after severe weeding. It's too late to start some of the cool weather crops but we will get those in for the fall. It'll be carrots and some herbs to start, and tomatoes and squash and some other veggies will go in from pre-started, purchased plants.

There was actually a harvest before this, of dill and sage that made it through two years of weed beds AND an earlier weeding. Everyone should plant herbs. They are utterly simple, and some come back every year with practically no work. Your only problem is that you will have way too much. In the 3x8 bed I may try putting in eight different herbs or something, because you ever only need a few leaves of something.

Looking good, UT. I really like the raised beds. We just planted our garden a week ago, so we are seeing things sprout right now. Unfortunately, our soil is mostly clay and some sand. we had a standing water issue in our garden until we amended it with some fertilizer and top soil.

So, that's where the bodies are buried, right?

Makes for some tasty termaters! :yum:

Just keep the raised beds watered - they dry out faster than ground level ones.

nice!

I've got a butterfly and hummingbird flower garden going of sorts. It's viewable outside my floor to ceiling living room window seltered by an ouside divider.
I feel very blessed about this getting my hands dirty activity and potentially drawing in beautiful creatures next year.

Now I wish we had done raised beds. Our garden is in standing water, after 2 days of rain!

How deep do you plant them?

hehehe *chuckling out loud *

FLOWERS silly , thanks for the smile

Wow my little attempt looks so lame next to UT's huge raised beds.


I moved and was blessed with a little patches of earth.
I planted a bleading heart in white...an Oriental Poppy ( in the sunny part and a columbine and some periwinkle close in by the window. I am not sure I am going to appreciate the periwinkle because of it's intrusiveness.

I am not attracting hummingbirds and butterflies yet but the pool seems to be springing up ducks!

I want to start planting my garden but I need to build a fence first. The rabbits here are crazy. I don't trust the squirrels either and they will be able to jump over any fence due to a lot of trees in our backyard.

Peppers, onions, tomatoes, basil I think?

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Tomatoes, yellow squash, cucumber, and pimiento pepper from Bonnie plants; carrots, basil, and dill from seeds.

Pest control is always an issue. I managed the rabbit population last fall by running over the babies with the lawn mower. I didn't mean to, it was horrible, but at least it was a quick death for both of them. In previous years I put up chicken wire, which is easy to do with the raised beds.

We plan on using chicken wire as well. We don't have raised beds so we will just place the chicken wire about a foot underground. I'm guessing that will suffice.

There is also a plastic version and you can make a "door" out of it better. I don't recall the cost differential though. Might be worth a look.

Love the ducks, sky!

The door is the one thing I haven't planned out so I will if any troubles come up. Thanks.