Last year's garden ended in me having to leave it. I have no idea how/if the harvest came out, but here are some phone pictures from before I had to leave:
I took this picture on Friday-- so a week ago-- and some of you may have seen it already, but this is how my garden looked at that time:
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It feels good to have gotten all the veggies in and I'm so excited about my three-sisters area. I'm sort of following this guide here.
Basically you plant corn and when the corn is 6 inches high, you plant peas or beans which climb up the corn and bind nitrogen into the soil. Then you plant a vine crop like a squash or a melon which shades the roots and helps keep the weeds down. Genius.
So I have corn, sugar snap peas, and then I'm going to do one mound of melon and two mounds of spaghetti squash.
After the week I had-- Monday and Tuesday clearing the ground and fenceline, Wednesday roto-tilling and sifting the soil (with help from Dougie and Anastasia), Thursday hauling three pick up trucks' worth of yard waste and logs by myself (but I got to use the new chainsaw!!), and then Friday planting it all...plus shooting 2 long weddings Friday and Saturday...when I bent down to tie my shoes on Sunday, I couldn't stand back up again. So I've been seeing a muscular therapist and am mending well but still in pain. Damn it. I still haven't learned to pace myself-- I'm either all in or...not.
Also, Anastasia wanted me to share her chicken coop plans:
As always-- click for large and legible.
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