It looks great! I need to do some research on what I can grow in this area, once I'm more settled. Although our housing area has stupid rules on what we can and cannot grow ... but I'm gonna do what I want.
I'm learning as I go, Melly. I've never gardened in rocky soil before, and I've only been here a year this month.. before that I spent 15 years in GA.. I figure I'm kind of playing now - and if I get tomatoes or anything else, I'll be thrilled by it I did learn though that you shouldn't plant anything that requires more than 75-80 days before maturation, or it may not make it since our summers aren't long enough.
easy, easy to do - he built me another last night.
I need to post a new picture - I can't believe how tiny my stuff was then.
I had a friend come over who laughed at my upside down tomato cages until he saw how well it was holding up the little wobbly ones, and then he said he's doing them that way next time! My grandfather had done them that way a couple times when his soil was soft, and I didn't even think about it when I put them in, I just put them that way. Not sure how I'll do it next year
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okay, Lindsey's picture died, but I borrowed my friends camera because Sandi was pestering me about pictures of my skirt - lol. I've got to get it back to her, but went out and took garden pictures while I had the chance.
my herb garden with the lavender (not doing so well), rosemary, lemon verbena, feverfew and echinacea
my mints, lemon balm, and two pots of wildflowers (over in the grass to take advantage of rain that's supposed to come!)
my garden - half the basil, all the cilantro, some of the thyme, oregano and parsley has been harvested already
my tomatillos
my jalapenos - purple in front (not doing much except getting taller) and green in back (can you see them?)
my tomatoes are starting to ripen
the blackberries in the greenbelt (and coming over our fence!) are *almost* ready (they're still a bit sour yet)
my pretty jasmine
Eric built me a second bed for fall crops.. and he's going to make me another small one for the childrens' garden since their playhouse broke
I'm giving all the credit to the raised beds two of those tomatoes were actually in the ground and doing nothing.. I moved them, and they're thriving. Our soil is simply too rocky.
now my problem is I don't know what will come back as volunteers, what will naturalize, what I need to leave for winter and what to pull up.
I do know that the tomatilloes will take over if I'm not cautious with the seeds, but that's about as far as I know.
Eric built me a second bed that I need to get going with stuff for fall, and he's going to make 3 of the smaller size so that each child can have their own as well.
I wonder if I could make a bunch of the raised bed gardens in the front yard and do it so that it borders the "pathway" to get down to the driveway. So make it useable space, but pretty, too. Does that sound silly? I'd probably do small rock or wood chips in the "pathway". Probably wood chips b/c there is a place here with piles and piles of different colored wood chips that is free and you can just haul it away.
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There are books devoted to this subject!!!! It is a growing trend, to use our land, no matter the size, for good use (for lack of better words at the moment). Yards aren't just for looking at anymore .
Location: Sometimes things look bad, then, poof, the moment is gone. And what do we do? We just keep swimming on.
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that's incredible, Jodi - they look amazing
far better than my yield this year - gah - measly five tomatoes or something
we had a really weird season, though, and even the midwest GOOD big slicing tomatoes are just now ripening here (too cold!)
Last year I had more peppers than I could handle and they were all like habanero hot.
I want a blackberry vine like yours! Gorgeous
I'm actually trying to figure out a way to have some trees removed from our yard that are semi-mature/young so I can replace them with fruit-bearing ones. I want to pull out a TON of the unnecessary/ornamental landscaping and replace it with crops
I have blackberries all through the neighborhood It's a weed here! We need to go pick again this afternoon - there's more ripe now.
our tomatoes aren't ripening really. I had two that were *almost* ready.. just went out, one is gone, the other was half gone and on the ground next to the tomato plants.. so something got them, I just have no idea what.
I planted a self-fertile dwarf plum and a self-fertile dwarf cherry.. we'll see what they do in a few years.
I did learn though that you shouldn't plant anything that requires more than 75-80 days before maturation, or it may not make it since our summers aren't long enough.
Tawnya, your memory lives on in your children.
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