John has been doing some tremendous preparation work on our gardens. I am so excited for the harvest we will have this summer!
This is what the bed along the side of the house looked like when we first moved in. There was a big, bushy tree next to the evergreen that got scragglier looking every year, and this last year, about half of it died. Then there was a small bush next to it, and then the remainder of the bed up the side of the house was just rocks and weeds.
I took out the tree about a month ago, and John began making these terraced beds for our fruit plants.
This is the end product. We have a raspberry bush to the right (just out of the picture), and John has planted strawberries, rhubarb, blueberries, blackberries, and pumpkins in this bed.
These are the two beds we had last summer. John has turned them, added in some great compost, and rearranged the drip lines.
Here they are now, fully planted.
These three terraced beds are brand new. John just built them.
I think they look so pretty, and he did a great job of building them into the hillside.
Here's what we'll be eating all summer: sweet corn, tomatoes (several varieties), onions, lots of lettuces and spinach, green beans, black eyed peas, sugar snap peas, 7 varieties of squash/zucchini, radishes (I'm not overly fond of radishes, but Helene grew them from seed in her Kindergarten class and brought them home, so we added them in.), carrots, and I'm sure there's more. What am I forgetting, John?
