Monday, May 16, 2011

Gardens


This is our community garden in the begining.  It dosen't look like too much but there is a lot going on in this 10 x 10 space.  I planted over 15 different veggies here.  I love the teepee I got for the green beans.  Menards for $6 it's bamboo and is collaspable and expandable, and didn't blow away with the storms last week. 
Shianna enjoying a picnic.
These are peppers and brussel sprout plants.

 
Shianna having a picnic at uncle Jesse's house, where we have our second garden this year.  I'm trying the three sisters planting method.  It is a Native American way of planting.  Corn, beans and squash.  They help each other grow, corn provides stalks for the beans to be supported, beans provide nitrogen which corn needs a lot, and the squash provide ground cover for weeds and keeps the soil from drying.
The center row is the pumpkins (squash) and to the right is the rows of beans and corn, which is not looking that great.  We had some strong storms right after I transplanted them.  I started some new seeds to add to the rows of beans and corn.  There is a lot of creeping charlie around the garden, I'm trying to kill it off by placing black plastic on top of it.