2012 Garden .. doing things a little differently

last year's garden seemed to be struggling so we decided to beef up the soil.  I've been dying to get a tiller and play around with it so we went down to Home Depot and rented the smallest one they had.  Charles took it over right away and had a ball with it.

We added manure and lime and peat and tilled it all together.  We took up the landscape ties.  They had silverfish nests all in them which might have been the problem with the garden last year.

Charles added the new landscape posts and hammered them in with his own special system

We added thisgarden weed reduction sheeting to keep the soil protected and to retard weeds

Looks cool huh?

Charles built me these cool frames for the beans, peas, squash and cucumbers

they are made of large tomato stakes, hinged at the top with wire mesh stapled to them. 

 

 

 

We will be able to fold them up in the winter to use again next year.

This is a look at the Garden from end to end

Here is the lettuce and my herb garden.  Charles tilled over my Thyme that used to come back every year so we will have to start from scratch with that..lol   This is lettuce, mint, dill, oregano, basil parsley and cilantro.

This is the corn.... on it's way UP

These are Habanero peppers right next to the seedling spinach

Tomato plants...

There are some yellow leaves..   I've been feeding them now because I'm worried about nitrogen deficiency.

I ordered some plants online from a nursery and I'm not very happy with what I got so I think I won't do that again.

These are really sickly looking.  I'll have to see if they perk up as the season progresses.

These are strawberries... they are supposed to climb and produce really big fruits...