Vegetable Gardening

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Looks great, Lisa! If you want to squeeze even more room out of your space, you could remove every other stepping stone and plant low things (lettuce) in between each stone. Or you could remove some of the stones and space the remaining ones farther away from each other and plant lettuce or mesculn mix in between them.

Can't do it I'm afraid. I'm already having a hard time balancing myself without tipping over on the path while I work over the plants as it is. I can't space the stones further apart without losing my footing or my balance. The photos make the garden look a bit larger than it really is, I think. I feel like a bull in a china shop when I'm in there!

Hey, wait a minute!... If I hoist myself up on a pulley system hovering over the garden like Peter Pan (or "Bruno"!) then I can get rid of the stone path completely by tending to the plants while suspended over them in the air. I could plant more lettuce! ;D

You could also plant pole beans and/or cucumbers to grow up the fence, although the critters might get the low hanging fruit.

I'm afraid that would cut half of the day's sunlight out for all the plants inside, considering how they are so close to the shed and the sun mostly comes in from that fence side.

You may not need to bother with that big garden in back after all!

Awww...but I want to grow more food! Waaaaaaah, waaaaah!!!!!

PS: is that rainbow swiss chard that I spy in the last photo? I love that! So colorful and delicious.

Yes sir-eee- you can see it along the right fence in the first two photos, closest to the camera. I love swiss chard, both raw and cooked. There are 'normal' white stemmed, yellow, and red stemmed.