The Veggie Garden - June 22

Things are finally coming together...the camera was located, a memory card was found and the sun was out, so it was time to get a picture of the vegetable beds. This year, I planted most of my vegetables on the May long weekend. I've kept the row covers on them and will probably keep the covers on right until August. I've altered my planting slightly from last year, when I followed the square foot planting method. This basically meant dividing my garden into square foot sections and planting evenly spaced seeds. This year, I abandoned the idea of separating up my garden, but kept with the evenly spaced seeds. I use a companion gardening book to determine what goes where and this year, I was extra careful about making sure that beets and carrots didn't get overshadowed by lettuce or cabbage.

Garden #1 has (from front to back): kale, mustards, turnips, carrots, beets, onions, red cabbage, broccoli, dill and some mixed greens in the attached planter.

Garden #2 has (from front to back): carrots, lettuce, cauliflower (one met an early demise), beets and chard in the attached planter

Garden #3 has my potatoes with the back red wheelbarrow full of herbs.

Every year one of my beds does really well and the other is crap. Unfortunately, I've never been able to remember which is the bad bed, so every year I have to guess which one is flawed. I've tried to mitigate this by adding lots of manure and compost to both beds, but we will see in a couple more weeks. Already, I'm worried about bed #2...

Here is the anemone I have that's grown back really well. The flowers are simple, but beautiful.

I'll save the greenhouse for later this weekend, after I get it cleaned up and looking snazzy.

Sierra posted this on Jun 23, 2007 from the garden | | permanent link