Indoor Garden

I saw something a while back where you could grow tomatoes by hanging them upside down, i thought i'd give it a try. So i grew one cherry tomato and one larger slicing tomato plant. And i thought i'd also try soy beans that i brought some home from the fields of Jackson and green beans that i grew in my garden this year. So far, so good.

Halfway Garden

The backyard garden halfway through the season.
Here's what it looked like just after planting. I put the grass clippings down so no seeds would wash away. I also used Preen to help control the weeds. That and grass mulch worked pretty well.
View from the roof while i was up cleaning the gutters and trimming the tree branches.
The beans, cucumber and potatoes grew the fastest.
Again this year, the only thing i really care whether or not it grows, is corn. I planted three rows and it's doing ok. The shade from the tree isn't helping. Then i also found out afterwords that i should have soaked the seeds for 24 hours the day before to help it start germinating.
I also planted some corn along the side of the garage. A couple of them are doing great.
String for the 4 different types of tomato plants
The bamboo shoots came up earlier in the year. Now all of the their energy is going into their roots, which are really starting to spread.

Garden - July

Here's what the garden looks like 2 months later. The beans, corn and pumpkins were the first to come up. I already ate a lot of the beans with some ranch dressing. Rabbits ate the tops of the sunflowers right after they started coming up, so i don't think i'll get any of those. Oh and when they say to space pumpkins 3' away from the next row... that's probably a good idea. I figured about a foot and a half would be ok but the pumpkins are now growing all over everything.

Garden - May

This year i figured it would be a cool idea to have a garden in the back yard. I started it in May and had to dig up the sod by hand and rototill the ground. And just to let you know, cutting sod by hand for an area 16'x12' isn't a lot of fun. Here's the area half way through sod cutting and then after tilling.

I planted seeds for:
sweet corn
carrots
onions
scallions
tomatoes
cherry tomatoes
beans
melons
watermelons
cantaloupe
gourds
pumpkins
sunflowers
sweet basil