A Vegetable Garden

Hello faithful readers. It has been some time since I've offered you a posting. I promise there will be several coming soon.



For a couple years now I have wanted to plant a garden. A garden planted with a variety of edibles. I have finally built this dream garden, and I have plants growing as we speak. Let's look at some pictures.

Here you can see two raised beds that I created. I leveled the pile of dirt that was previously inhabiting this corner of the yard, constructed two 8 foot by 4 foot beds out of composite lumber (it won't rot away like natural wood will), and filled them with "fertile soil mix" I obtained from a nearby nursery.

Inside the house, sometime in March, Maggie and I "started" a number of plants to be transplanted outside later, when it is warmer. We started broccoli and three kinds of peppers.

After a couple weeks, the broccoli looked like this.

Here is a closer look at the beds, with some posts at the corners that will later hold up a fence of sorts to keep critters out. Mixed salad greens can be seen in the upper left.

The broccoli was transplanted to the outside beds in late April.

It is highly probable that this will turn out to be cauliflower.

After several weeks and no sign of life, I thought that I had planted the pepper seeds too soon, and had killed them. I was sure that the seeds had rotted in the cool, moist soil. One day, it got warm (70 deg F or so) and this happened.
Snap peas will grow even when surrounded by grass

In mid May, the beds have many things growing in them, and you can see that I have implemented the aforementioned critter defense system.