How Does Your Garden Grow?
July 10th, 2008 by ToniUp until this year my answer to that question has always been, “It doesn’t.” It’s been really sad. Still, I try. This year the children and I started early planting seeds. It was an abysmal failure. We replaced our sad, un-sprouted seeds with seedlings from a local nursery and forged ahead undaunted. I am so glad we did. Yesterday, we enjoyed our first bit of harvest: sliced tomatoes lightly salted with mozzarella and fresh basil. Even such a simple meal tastes fine when picked from your own backyard.
If you’re interested in how our garden really grew, I’ve posted pictures here. We used a raised bed/no dig method of gardening and tried to follow some companion planting guidelines. Our plot measures approximately 4′ x 4′ and holds tomatoes, basil, mint, petunia’s and jalepeno peppers. Sister also grew a potato plant which we have since transplanted to an old garbage can.
Other resources on gardening:
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All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
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Four Season Harvest by Eliot Coleman
We have lots of lettuce, wildflowers, peas and beans–LOVE raised gardens.
Beautiful. Good job for following Churchill’s advice, even though he wasn’t talking about gardening, necessarily.
I love the idea of a raised garden. We have a garden this year. It’s mostly my dad’s thing. He gave Julia her own section to plant as she pleased and that little section has yielded the best looking produce. The kid has a green thumb.
yuuummm…I love fresh tomatoes with mozzarella & basil!
I had some gardening failures myself this year. Like Jenni said, I tried, and tried again. It won’t be a big bounty, but I hope to be able to post a similar picture in a few weeks.
(p.s. also, it’s fun to try a little goat cheese sprinkled on top of the tomatoes…mmmm…)