Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Garden Update

Our weather finally turned! The region was cold and wet the first part of the growing season but the last couple weeks have amazing and everything has really taken off!!!

Cucumber starts were planted on 5/15 (7 weeks ago)
Sugar snap pole peas on a trellis planted from seeds on 6/1 (5 weeks ago)

In the foreground you can see the pole beans that
we planted 6/1 (5 weeks ago)
The raised bed in the foreground contains heirloom Isis and Cherokee Purple
Tomatoes as well as leaf lettuce and chives. The bed to the left contain carrots
lettuce and Russian Red Kale all planted from seeds 6/12 (4 weeks ago) 

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Raised Garden Bed Plan

Hey everyone! I decided to do a quick drawing to better explain the construction of our raised garden beds. Pay attention to how we overlapped the edges this provides much more structural rigidity epically while transporting the raised beds to the garden. Check out our post below for actual photos of the construction. - Jon

Raised Bed Garden Plan