A lot has happened in the gardening department.
The gutter garden that DH built last fall has worked out splendidly. I would recommend to anyone who has limited space to check into making one to grow salad greens. I can not get over how much we harvested and replanted twice already this season.
I wish the pictures were a bit better, so you could really see how well the lettuces grew in the gutters.
In this next picture, you get just a small glimpse of how well the beans did growing up the netting on the other side of the gutter garden. We are still harvesting beans from the original planting. Sylvester has eaten most of the right off the vine/bush. But I have managed to put away quite a few quart bags into the freezer.
Along the house, in the shade, you can see the tomato plants that I grew from the seeds our son gave us from the plant he was given last year from a friend who grows a heritage tomato, for which we have no name. Pictures to follow of how and what the tomatoes look like. They are super meaty.
Here is an early season picture of the hugel bed we made in the fall. The five different kinds of blueberry bushes have been planted. All the rest of the plants have been grown by me from seed. The marigolds grew huge, too big really and I've cut them back a few times. The picklers did wonderfully. I am not entirely sure how many pint jars and spaghetti jars of refrigerator pickles I made and gave away. Enjoyed by all. I felt badly about having to pull out the plants just before vacation, but I knew too many would go to waste while we were gone.
These are just a few of the Daikon radishes I had planted from seed up in the hugel. The leaves on them were a great addition to the compost pile and two friends really enjoyed the
radishes.
I hope to post some more about my garden adventures in the coming weeks.
I hope that you will come back to visit and see how well I've done and what I've learned.
Leave a comment to let me know you were here.
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