This is the small garden we had last year, this year it is our lettuce, spinach, onion, carrots, beets, and radish garden. If you look closely you'll see a few things, my two garden helpers, Ryan's rain water capture system, and my method of scaring those nasty birds away (I ran string with and hung old Cd's from them;) It looked pretty funny but it seemed to work. I took the Cd's all down a week ago because the plants are big enough to fend for themselves.
Our Squash GardenWe've had to replant most of the squash, because the starling birds ate down the starts all the way down to the ground. The pumpkins on the far left of the photo are the only ones that made a comeback. I think next year we will skip starting them in the basement and just purchase the starts. It's all about trial and error, right?
The garden patch closest is mostly tomatoes. Three rows are Roma which I'm hoping to can into yummy homemade spaghetti sauce. One row is specialty heirloom tomatoes.The next garden has a row of specialty tomatoes, like Green Zebra, and Stripy. Then the next was going to be broccoli, but it all died. Then we noticed in our little garden that we had last year that we had a bunch of "volunteer" tomatoes, they had reseeded themselves from last year. I knew we didn't need anymore tomatoes but we had the space, and we had the plants so we have another row of surprise tomatoes. Then we have a row of peppers, and eggplant.
Now going along the chain link fence on the right down both of these patches is cucumber, snap peas and soybeans.
In the back along the chain link fence we got some old wine barrels, Ryan cut them in half and they make great garden beds for our pole beans.
