Vegetable Gardening

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

GLC- yes you are lucky to have rich soil there! But.....double digging....{{{shudder}}}
I'm very glad to not do that.

Here are the pictures from our new topsoil (all 26 cubic yards of it) that has been brought in and put in the garden area:
http://strumelia.blogspot.com/2009/0...oil-is-in.html

I'm so excited!!

Next we start laying out the bermed beds and paths, while leaving the perimeter naked for the fence people to do their work in a couple of weeks.

[bmccasland]

That's an ambitious garden! Grow some zinnias too - my grandmother did, just for color. In my mind, a vegetable gardens still needs flowers if my practical grandmothers did it (they fed their families from the garden).

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

That's an ambitious garden! Grow some zinnias too - my grandmother did, just for color. In my mind, a vegetable gardens still needs flowers if my practical grandmothers did it (they fed their families from the garden).

I have plans to sprinkle in some nasturtiums, borage, and calendula... then we could eat them in salads!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Laid out and shaped the beds and the paths today!:
http://strumelia.blogspot.com/2009/0...and-paths.html
Gosh it all looks so neat- but of course the weeds will get wind of the new virgin real estate soon.

Can't do much around the perimeter because the fence people will be making a big mess there....but I can start planting seeds all around in the middle now...I'm so very excited!
It'll be my first time ever planting things like turnips, beets, spinach, carrots, kohlrabi, etc. I used to always be a flower and herb gardener with just a sideline of tomatoes and maybe one or two other veggies. This is a big step for me, and hopefully a big healthy step in our lifestyle too.

[GLC1968]

Wow, Lisa - that looks wonderful! How beautiful it's all going to be when all full of greenery!

When planting flowers in with veggies - marigolds and lavender are good choices because they repel lots of bad-for-veggie bugs.

[smilingcat]

so here are pics from my yard and yard itself.

5 round one on the left are lemon cucumber. The little black spec is hard spiky thing so we rub it off with a sponge. When fully ripe, it does have a hint of lemon. The two in the middle are Aremenian cucumber. When we first grew them, I thought it had crossed with a mellon of some sort. fruit is pale light green. Very mild refreshing taste. yummm... And dark rough looking thing is one variety of Japanese cucmber. Yes we do eat the skin on that one. It does have bit of bitter cucmber taste but even my partner really loves it.

Second pic: crooked neck squash and two kinds of zuccini

[smilingcat]

front yard with owl kachina, sun and the moon. Big tomato plants, taller than me but the fruit is languishing because its been overcast for the last three weeks. I think we've had two sunny days here. Cool too with highs only in the 70's. My side or back yard where its the squash and zuccinis are growing. Acorn, Crooked neck, two kinds of zuccini, and lemon cucmber. Out of pic are the red bell pepper, ginger, raddishes... Also we are having terrible bouts with aphids so we have been releasing thousands of lady bugs every other week. And the ladybugs are staying around. We also have marigolds scattered amongst the plants...