Garden Pictures

Garden Pics from June 25th 2008

Here's a long view of the garden from our neighbor's yard into ours. The main part of what you see is all new ground that was tilled this year.

This is a closer view of the second garden we planted in the neighbor's yard. Tomatoes in the background, peas in the middle, radishes in the foreground. Their tomatoes are doing half as well as ours, most likely because we didn't have enough manure to spread on both gardens this year.

This radish was eaten moments after being photagraphed.

The onions are doing very well this early in the season.

These are the extremely healthy and vigorous tomato plants in our front yard. Pay no attention to the carrots next to them they have yet to be weeded.

The Garden

Last year was our very first year of vegetable gardening. Needless to say, I caught the bug.

The garden has doubled in size this year, due in large part to our neighbors that gave us permission to till up their front yard.
Last year the garden was 12 ft by 20 ft. With the addition of our neighbors front yard we added another 12 ft by 30 ft.

Yes, I did get a few strange looks as I bucked and struggled to hang on to the tiller all the while destroying a perfectly good yard.

Here's a list of everything we have planted:
12 tomato plants, 24+ pepper plants/both hot and sweet, 30+ onions, two rows of carrots, two rows of cucumbers, three hills of squash, two rows of peas, a small row of radishes, three different small rows of lettuce, watermelon, cantelope, and ten hills of red potato.

Pictures to come soon.


Why garden? Why grow more food than you can eat?

• Our neighbors are hungry
• We'll can and freeze more produce this year to use during the winter
• I find peace while weeding in my flipflops with dirt between my toes
• It's miraculous to see the process of seeds becoming something. When soil, water, and sun join forces to push life up from the earth, it blows me away every time.