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Garden Progress and Tips for a Successful Vegetable Garden

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Since we are midway through the summer and I gave a sneak peak yesterday, I thought it was time for a garden update.

A few weeks ago, I mentioned that while the vegetable garden was making wonderful progress, the bunnies in my yard thought it was delicious too. I got several suggestions to keep them at bay, but there was one thing I did that worked perfect.

Nothing!

I think the bunnies have lost interest. Also, some of the plant are getting so large, and some of them are a bit prickly. I don’t think the bunnies are too fond of either of those things. Also, the plants that got munched on are starting to return.

 

While, the garden isn’t quite ready for harvest yet, I am so happy to report all my plants are doing phenomenally.

Would you believe I started this garden from seed?

I cannot wait to make zucchini bread!

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Garden Planning 2013

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This weekend at our house is known as planting weekend! Last year, when we were first planning our vegetable garden I did a TON of research and talked to a lot of seasoned gardeners about when the best time to plant would be. The consensus for our area is the weekend after Mother’s Day. Our garden last year (you can check out posts here and here), was pretty successful, so I am sticking with that plan.

There were a few mistakes with last year’s garden, that hopefully I will not make this year to ensure we get a bigger crop of veggies.

The biggest mistake last year was overcrowding. This year, I am really limiting what we are planting to what we will really use a lot of. For example, last year the peas and lettuce were the biggest hit, and we wish we would have had more off those, and less of the radishes.

Here is what we have planned for this year:

As you can see, I have my work cut out for me this weekend.

It won’t be long though before I will be enjoying some zucchini bread, a caprese salad or sandwich, or a veggie frittata right from our garden.

What do you have planned for this weekend?

Just Call me Captain Vegetable: Building a Raised Garden Bed

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Remember this? Anyway, for years, I have always
had a fascination with people who grow their own food. To me it is amazing,
plant seeds… wait… pick food… bring to kitchen. I have always been so envious
of people like Martha Stewart and Ina Garten, walking out their patio door
and cutting veggies and herbs, and bringing them in to use in their recipes.
Brian and I come from a long line of vegetable growers, so we thought that if
we ran into trouble we have plenty of family members to ask. So, we started
with a plan back in February. And now the dream has come to fruition. Check
this out!

How did we go from two boxes in the ground to a full vegetable garden?

Well at the risk of this
being a million word post, I’ve decided to break this up in sections for you.
Today we are going to talk about building a raised bed. This was a very simple project with the help of a little planning and some internet research. Brian was very excited to be using power tools!

Back in February, I
started to pin some raised bed ideas on Pinterest, as well as try and scope out
some sunny places in our yard.

http://www.verduragardens.com
http://www.sunset.com/garden/backyard-projects/ultimate-raised-bed-how-to-00400000011938/page3.html

 

After some debating we used the plan from www.sunset.com. It seemed simple and versatile. We did, however, make a few minor changes. First,
we used pressure treated lumber instead of cedar to save some money. Also, we
did not buy the wire mesh to line the beds. We talked to our landscaper, and
after years of growing vegetables, he has never had any animals dig from
underneath to swipe vegetables.Here are some pictures of the building process. (Sorry about the iPhone pictures)

 

 

Here are the finished raised beds waiting to be transported
to their designated location.

 




And here they are just before planting filled with lots of
peet moss and mushroom compost.

 

Anyone else have a vegetable garden? What vegetables are you growing?