Our garden was completely planted on June 15th with the planting of the bush beans. We have already harvested radishes and lettuce.
This is the third year we have used weed barrier felt. The same felt I might add. In the fall I roll up the cloth and store it at the back of the garden. To make spots for plants, I burned holes in the felt using a hand propane burner.
This year I added two things to make the garden easier to manage. Drip irrigation hose and electrified poultry fence.
I purchased a kit called Small Farm Kit from
Drip Depot. I also purchased a
gravity water timer. This system allowed me to disperse water where needed when I wanted to do so. Last year I lost most of my veggies to a drought. I used traditional lawn sprinklers, and this dropped my well down to a dangerous level. Not this year! So far it has worked flawlessly.
Next, instead of the traditional step n? post fence with four stands of electrical wires fed off my neighbors electric fence, I sprung for electrified poultry netting from
Premier1. So far it has worked flawlessly too. Other than a few birds descending into the garden for a free dinner of worms, it has kept out other critters including my chickens. I purchased a 164-foot by 42? high kit minus the electrical controller. Afterall, I like free electricity from my neighbor?s fence.
We are growing the following veggies this year.
Bold items were grown from seed starting in March and then the seedlings were replanted post Memorial Day. We have received frost here up to that weekend.
Basil
BroccoliBush Beans
Cabbage
Colliflower
CucumbersTomatoes (Amish, Brandywine, German Pink)
Lettuce
Melons (Amish, Water)
Peppers (Hungarian, Jalapeno, Sweet)
Radish
StrawberriesSquash (Acorn, Butternut, Jack O? Lantern, Yellow, Zucchini)
So there you go. Share with the group comments and pics if you have 'em.
