Garden - August

By this point it wasn't as much a garden as it was an area of my yard FILLED with weeds. Next year i'm using Preen for sure to prevent that from happening. I spent a good hour pulling enough weeds to fill a garbage can.

But lets start with the good stuff. The tomatoes, carrots, pumpkins and corn are growing great. Everything else isn't.







Here's what it looked like after pulling the weeds. Notice the big pile on the right.


and here's the new compost pile, maybe i'll end up with some good dirt for next year

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 - June 2011

This is the 3rd year i've had a garden and the 2nd year with good soil. I planted more seeds then last year, i didn't space the rows out as much, so we'll see how it goes.

• 3 rows of corn
• peanuts
• sunflowers
• 3 types of tomatoes
• lettuce
• gourds
• squash
• 3 types of pumpkins
• carrots
• peppers

I planted everything when it was 80, then it went down to 40 degrees at night and rained for a week. But i did mix in mulch and pearlite.
Charlie on guard duty. Again this year his job is to kill any animal that try's to eat my corn.

The corn and sunflowers are doing great, squirrels ate the peanuts and most of the potatoes though.