This was our garden last year:
Last year I marked the space for the new garden. Then I sprayed Round Up on the grass where we wanted the garden. You can see in the photo that the grass is dying. This spring, the grass was completely dead. We applied some rotted manure to the soil and then I tilled. Sylvia planted lots of good things to eat and some flowers for our eyes to feast upon. Then we put up fence. I setup the water hose with some accessories including quick disconnects.
Then we watered and waited . . . repeated that process several times. And today the garden looks like this:
The butternut squash went a little bit crazy, but who cares. It tastes just as good if it grew outside the fence as it would have done growing inside. And that means it tastes great!
The cucumbers are done and the zucchini is nearly so. Eggplants and peppers are still loaded as are the tomato vines. Plenty of carrots, onions and beets are ready. The second planting of green beans have recently come to maturity. They taste great when freshly picked and steamed.
We’ve had so much produce this year that Sylvia has twice had to purchase more glass jars to preserve the goodies. We will probably remember 2012 as the year of the garden.
Your blog looks very nice Chuck, soon i will be back.
Greetings from Holland, Joop
Thank you very much Joop. I’m so glad you visited from Holland some of my ancestors came from there. But most were from England and Germany. Thanks also for leaving the nice comment. I do hope you come back often. 😀
Your garden looks great! You did a great job! 🙂
And what a beautiful place you live. Here I think the garden season is over.
Wish you a wonderful weekend.
Mette
Thank you so much Mette. My wife, Sylvia, does most of the work in the garden. I try to help when I can. Our garden season is quickly ending here too, but there are lots of good things to eat still waiting for us. 😀
The publicist refuses to discuss the garden this year and I heard mutterings about hitting the male person over the head with a zucchini if he brings another one into the house….
Ouch! :stars: Enough is enough. :nono: Right? :beam:
I love the long “fingers” stretching out. My cucumbers did that and I thought it made everything look lush and beautiful. Everything is looking pretty much dead now. 🙁
Our cucumbers are finished now. We’ve harvested the last of them and the vines are dead. Other plants continue to flourish. 😀
I have seen it in person and your garden is a beautiful thing! Your hard work has really paid off.
Our hard work and the rotted manure from your compost heap. :cheer: We sure have wonderful neighbors. :dance:
Take all you want, we make a fresh batch everyday!
Now there’s an offer I won’t refuse. 😀
And I have also been eating from Chuck & Sylvia’s garden for 11 days, and have cabbage and squash yet for another week or more. It’s an awesome thing!
The other evening, we dined on baked potato covered with diced onion, zucchini, pepper and cucumber. We also had a side of fresh butternut squash. It was soooo good! 😀
A beautiful and abundant place it is! I like it when the butternut goes nuts like that.
Me too. 😀 I like it even better freshly cooked and on my plate. :ha: