All of Don's hard work preparing our garden is paying off. We have a lot of planter boxes and pots that we are growing in since our neighborhood is infested with gophers.
We have green stuff growing everywhere and we love it. Don did a lot of research on the internet and even did "refrigerator incubation" on the spinach seeds to get them to sprout. I just water, fertilize and harvest. It's been great to have food from our garden every day.
It was so wonderful to come home from our trip to Utah/Idaho and have everything going strong. Our tomatoes have reached the rooftop. Click here to see how they used to look.
On the side of our house Don built a planter box system that grows all of our lettuce, spinach, swiss chard, chives, green beans, snap peas and some of our strawberries. Ethan helped plant our lettuce when he was here the beginning of March. We haven't had store bought lettuce since April.
This is the planter box that Don designed, his dad built and Don painted. It is lined to lengthen it's usefulness and even has a drain system that Don installed.
This is the view from our back door. Totally green and mostly edible. It looks almost like a park until you get up close and see that the greenery is really edible stuff like tomatoes and squash.
4 comments:
I'm jealous. We have a garden going but we are having rabbit problems. That and our growing season is shorter. Oh there are days I miss Cali. We need to come visit :)
Can you come be my garden consultant and help me do all that at my house? You guys are me Heros!!!!!
I agree! Can you come take a look at our garden when you visit:)! It has been so HOT and dry (no rain anyway:) that when we were away in Utah everything dried up with the sparse watering. We need some of those methods! Perhaps you can send along any helpful websites and what you use to fertilize/pesticide:). Looks like you are doing great!
I am so impressed!!!! I just love your garden!!!
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