Our garden was really fun this summer...
We have 3 boxes 6X2 and 4 tires(from my hyunda)...
Stay with me here for a minute...
The tires became my hills and the boxes were for other things.
Holly asked me what I wanted for Mother's Day and
I said plants for my garden. So we started in May with
cucumbers, zuccini and crook neck squash, pumpkins,
one cherry tomato and an early girl and a beefsteak tomato...
We lost the first cukes and squash we planted... not enough water
in the tires and we also got hail and snow May 31...
I covered the tomatoes and they did well...
Mike and I went and got bush bean seeds and red potato
seeds plus a bell pepper and another pepper plant for salsa.
The garden has been fun...
Ady and Matthew helped dig potatoes... the cute red ones
that are very small. The beans went over very well with all...
we ate bean for 3 months (I only had 3 short rows about
2 1/2 feet long and 2 feet wide. Mike and I put a drip
system in 2 of the boxes, but our weather is to hot and dry
for this...so we will swap the drip out for a strip head
(narrow and long). The tires were first year soil and
ammendments... so they were not so very furtile...
I bought a lovely bale of straw to use as a mulch cover that
worked very well. What straw is left will be tilled into the
soil to compost over the winter along with a few bags of manure.
Tanner and Seth were helpful moving the drip hose from tire to tire.
All in all the garden did well... Wished that I had the money
for my white picket fence...hehe and my arched garden gate
and solar lighting... but wishes are just that...
