2010 Gardening

This page is dedicated to my gardening exploits. I will start it out with video of a few pictures from last year.  And i will keep a blog about what we are doing and post photos and stuff. I know this will keep you enthralled. But, hey! Let’s talk about gardening!

This is the north east corner of the house.

It gets a lot of early morning sun. The mountains to the east probably rob of us of about 1/2 an hour of sunlight. But the pumpkins, tea, various herbs and even some strawberries did quite well here last year!

Looking south from the north west corner

The top of this picture is where the strawberries are. The bottom of the picture is where the carrots, brussel sprouts and some onions and stuff were/are. This year I am going to join the two beds and will be all strawberries. I am even thinking about a pvc hoop frame covered with bird netting.With Cathy’s help I can lift off or cover the strawberries to protect them from the birds. Before they start to produce fruit, however, the birds are allowed to dig for grubs, slugs and other beings which threaten my crop.

Two of our raised beds measure 4′ x 8′

This is looking towards the east. The bed in front measures 4′ x 8′. On the right there is mint. We planted the mint to deter ants. It seemed to work. We also had zucchini, various peppers, some cabbage, cucumbers and broccoli here. The trellis had beans and peas of all sorts. It didnt fare too well, but the sunflowers fed the birds for a very long time. Just to the east were tomatoes and leeks the white fenced box is compost from raked leaves and grass clippings. The white barrel to the right is compost from household food. We are vegan. So there is no animal products in this compost.
Grapes will grow along the wooden picket fence I built to keep the dog out of the garden.

This is the other big bed. A smaller 3′ x 5′ sits just to the east

This is also looking east at the north side of the garden. The green barrel grew some small potatoes last year.We tried some corn, but decided against it this year. This bed is also
4′ x 8′. It gave us lots of yellow squash. (yum!) and some cantaloupes, and more zucchini!

The smaller bed behind it is 3′ x 5′. It had tomatoes, okra and eggplants. This year I think it will be all tomatoes. Or it may be all okra. Not real sure yet.

A gift to the garden from the lawn and maples!

This is all the leaves from the maple trees out front. It also has grass clippings. I may have to build another one to transfer and turn it. I think it will get me some good dirt! Mixed with the compost in the white barrel!

And we give back some of what we have received.

This white barrel is all table scraps. Also it is some cuttings from the garden. But mostly food we didn’t eat. As you can see it is turning into a rich black soil. All of this was harvested from our garden. What we didn’t eat, we threw in here. We gave a way a bunch of food too! So, there was a lot! This is from the whole season of 2009. I am going to use it mixed with the grass and leaves. But first I have to mix it and chop it up a bit more.

Wax on. Wax off.

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~ by BillCherryJr on April 7, 2010.