Enjoying a home vegetable garden.

Have planted a home garden for many, many years and still enjoy working one up. Below is a pic as of 5/18/2012.

   

This year I've planted tomatoes, pole beans, corn, cucumbers, squash, corn, peppers, eggplants, okra, and a few hills of the small icebox size melons. That watermelons toward the front of the pic. Toward the middle are pole beans and cucumbers running up on a trellis I fixed up. Corn to the upper right and two short rows of tomatoes behind the beans.


When I first started this year back in early February I had bagged up several bags of leaves and worked them into the soil well before planting dates. Many benefits of this are:

• Adds nutrients back to the soil.
• Helps the soil keep from packing after heavy rains.
• Helps hold moisture during dry periods.

My garden is about 25' wide and about 30' long, but have some other  plants in semi-raised beds in the yard.

Not shown but next I worked up my rows and added fertilizer along the top of each row.

No point in wasting fertilizer on the whole garden, so just spread along the top of each row and work in with tiller or garden rake.


BTW: I use a normal tine tiller to work up my garden each year and run through it occasionally during the growing season. Keeps it happy and mostly free of weeds....:)

 

In the above picture I've planted most of the garden and have staked up the tomatoes and built a trellis for the beans and cucumbers.  When planting plants from the nusery I always add about a pint of Merical Grow