This month has found us having what I hope is the last frost of the year, as well as actually getting our garden rolling. There has been quite a bit of gardening activity since my last garden update. At my last update I had built my first raised bed garden about two weeks later I built the second raised bed and used the excess dirt from the first to fill it. Both raised beds are constructed of 8′ x 4′ 2″ x12″ boards butted together at the end and screwed together, they are constructed using untreated boards so they will have to be replaced in several years.
I chose to use raised bed gardens because of the low quality of soil here in our neck of the woods. I am hoping that the amended topsoil I am using will provide a good environment for my plants.
Over this past weekend I purchased a blackberry bush, a rasberry bush, some bags of organic compost, vegetables and a new 100′ hose. I planted the following, a L indicates the left garden bed and R the right garden bed.
- L – 2 rows of spinach (front)
- L – 3 sweet banana peppers (middle)
- L – 1 Cherry Tomato
- L – 1 Roma Tomato
- L – 1 Slicing Tomato
- L/R – Pole beans on the tepee
- R -2 rows of carrots
- R – 1 row of romaine lettuce now, 1 row in two weeks
- R – 2 mounds for cucumber (2-3 per mound)
- R – 2 zucchini
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