Gardening 2008

Well, there is a garden this year. After a late start due to us moving in June last year, I threw together some tomatoes, green beans, peas and a sickly green pepper plant. Since then, I had been composting like a madman, doing lots of reading and fantasizing about what could be this year. I even began preparing a new garden bed during some nice weather in April. All of this would soon be interrupted by a construction company that buried electric cable. They brought this bright yellow dream-wrecking backhoe and dug three of my garden beds right out. They were supposed to put things back the way they were, but instead placed sod where the bed across the sidewalk was. And, since these were fairly shoddily constructed raised beds, once they had been torn up there was hardly anything to put back in place. So, only one of the beds was put back and it was filled with some really crappy fill dirt full of rocks. Needless to say, this was a real dent in my hopes for gardening. Due to busyness and also the repressed anger at have my garden plundered, I shelved my gardening for a few months. Eventually the spirit caught me again and I got some seeds going for sweet corn, green beans, tomatoes, peas and even some pumpkins. I wanted to document the progress this year so i took pictures of the four beds.

This bed has the corn, beans, tomatoes, one dwarf sunflower and the frog standing guard.

These are the peas. I transplanted them after starting them in cups. I have since sewn some more seed in the rows. Peas have proven themselves to be pretty hearty in the past.

We just made this bed using a railroad tie and some bricks. This replaces some of the square footage lost when the cable was buried. This will either be pumpkins or more green beans.

This had a few plants in it last year. We’ve already spruced it up some with some bricks. Trying to make the place look a little better.

All of these pics were taken on June 20. I’ll post a late July update. Things have already grown quite a bit as we have had wonderful sunshine in the last week.