our gardens

[majorcatfish]

it does not look like much during the wintertime, so use your gardening imagination thats it's green and full of wonderful veggies growing.

the asparagus bed...


the main garden


blackberry patch
really need to finish up pruning them back

the new potato area
have to work on the drainage this spring


the main raised bed area

with garlic

main garlic raised bed

 

[Mike]

Good looking beds. I've been doing container gardening for a little while but think this year of going to a raised bed. I just haven't decided if I want to go with something shorter like you've done or something taller, like about 3 or so feet tall beds.

 

[whistech]

Great looking garden. Are those vines blackberries?

 

[majorcatfish]

we are hooked on raised bed gardening now, all our beds are 3' wide ranging from 5'-16' long and all are 12" deep
the only reason we went 12" is for rotation of crops. you could go 8"-10", but either growing potatoes or root crops<carrots/ parsnips 12"
has worked out, did a lot of reading on them and 12" makes perfect sense, well in our needs.

 

[majorcatfish]

Great looking garden. Are those vines blackberries?

yes those are triple crown thornless

 

[45 ACP]

Nice. Looks like plenty of room to plant just about anything you would want.

 

[Whistler]

nice lookin gardens.

 

[Mike]

That's a whole lot of garlic!

 

[majorcatfish]

if everyone of them produces there will be around 650 heads 35 of them are elephant.
last year we sold half of what we grew, we saved all the little heads to replant this year
did not think we had that many..lol thats why the overflow went into the main raised bed area.
which in turn limits me on planting in those beds till june-july depending on the weather.
figure will inter plant those beds with carrots since they are a root vegetable.

anyway we are going to do the local farmers market here in town this year see how it goes
with all the veggies grown here. maybe the following year reach out and try the triad farmers market.

 

[MB3]

I am really envious of that amount of space. glad to see some people who own land make good use of their land =)