Veggie Garden of 2007
So here are some lush photos of my wee veggie garden. Unfortunately, I forgot to get a shot of the entire garden, but I got the individual plants.
My pretty little lettuce. =)
Only two grew... I think the mole got the rest.
The bloom on our only tomato that actually
bloomed. We didn't get these planted early
enough, & the soil wasn't the best, so they
didn't grow very fast. We'll be starting them
soon, here. February, probably?
Cute lil' okra. We never got to harvest these,
either, but the whole row did pretty well.
Look at those precious beans! Italian beans.
They did fairly well, too, though they never
got to the point where we needed to build
frames for them.
Cucumbers... had lovely little vines & blooms,
but these plants weren't very hardy. I think
the mole liked them; we never saw a cucumber.
Baby zucchinis! A big pretty bloom!
The zukes were very nice to us... grew like
mad, the whole row of them! And they gave
us plenty of zukes to eat! Yay!
My first veggie garden (besides the one or two seasons I helped my mom & brothers do one, but we were young and it wasn't that successful.) The spinach didn't come in at all, nor the onions. The rest grew more than anything I've grown before, but most didn't make it to harvest before the frost.
I learned that I need to enrich our dry, clay soil so the plants can grow better. And we'll have to do something about the mole. We're going to build raised beds for the veggies, this year, too, and I'll supervise the planting to be sure the rows are straight (LOL) and have watering trenches next to them.
Or ideally, get a drip system set up. *dreams*
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