So today I'm trying to finish up building my second raised garden box. It was expensive for the cedar boards! Insanely expensive. My original plan was to use dirt bags to build the retaining walls, making those dirt bags from old sheets, and then plaster over that. Unfortunately, getting the dirt proved to be problematic.... a long story that I don't want to tell. You would think dirt would be easy to come by...
After building and filling the boxes, I want to make some kind of watering system out of PVC pipes that can also be wrapped in plastic for a hotbox effect or netting to keep the yard critters from ravaging the fruits of my labor:)
I'll try to take a pic and post it later, for now, I'm gonna go slide on my boots and get to work!
Showing posts with label fall garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall garden. Show all posts
Friday, September 10, 2010
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Summer Garden transitions to Fall!
So as I have talked about earlier, I have an unjustifiable loyalty to the notion of gardening. I've cycled through 4 or 5 gardening seasons, and put in brief spurts of strenuous labor here and there, with little to show for it. I'm TRYING here! I have to give myself credit for that. Somehow, I need to muster up the motivation to try harder.
For the summer garden, I managed to till the earth several times, build a raised garden box from reclaimed scrap wood, fill it with dirt, manure, compost. Dig rows in the ground garden. I also filled several pots for a container garden of herbs and tomatoes. In the raised garden box I planted radishes, beets, carrots, and tomatoes. In the ground garden, I planted black pole beans, squash, mustard greens, okra, cucumbers, and again tomatoes. Sounds like a ton of work right? Not to mention watering and weeding consistently...
You would think that I would be swimming in produce, right? WRONG. Not to say I didn't get anything, but not enough to live off of. Obviously, I can do better. So, I will be pulling up all the summer foliage in a few days, tilling, spreading the compost pile in the ground and letting it bake in prep for the fall garden which will be planted in September. One day, I will get the hang of this...
For the summer garden, I managed to till the earth several times, build a raised garden box from reclaimed scrap wood, fill it with dirt, manure, compost. Dig rows in the ground garden. I also filled several pots for a container garden of herbs and tomatoes. In the raised garden box I planted radishes, beets, carrots, and tomatoes. In the ground garden, I planted black pole beans, squash, mustard greens, okra, cucumbers, and again tomatoes. Sounds like a ton of work right? Not to mention watering and weeding consistently...
You would think that I would be swimming in produce, right? WRONG. Not to say I didn't get anything, but not enough to live off of. Obviously, I can do better. So, I will be pulling up all the summer foliage in a few days, tilling, spreading the compost pile in the ground and letting it bake in prep for the fall garden which will be planted in September. One day, I will get the hang of this...
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