The Hines: Veggie Garden KY house

Well, Sunday 22MAR09 is the day that I told Ashley I was going to have a "small" garden tilled... Andy showed up with a tractor and a 6' tiller attachment. How could I say small to him? I had him till about a 25'x 30' garden about 10" deep.

Here is Andy tilling (I took this with my phone camera)

Here is one from the camera. You can really see he did a great job for me.

After he finished, I had to show Ashley how to pull rows. I first just hoed a couple rows but decided to add mounds to the row. I think it will be better for watering and controlling weed growth in the garden.

I planted a row of seed potatoes, yellow onions, red onions(for Mom), 3 rows of strawberries(for everyone), carrots, broccoli, 4 Tomatoes, and more to come.

25MAR09

Llast night Ashley and I started a couple egg cartons of yellow squash, marigolds, bush beans, and okra. I started with six seedlings so we could space out the harvest.

I am going to try and go today after work and cut some river cane. I need to make some teepees for everything. I want to get them in the ground before I plant anything.

05 APR 2009

I have been out of town for the entire week. I was hoping to come home to a garden full of small sprouts instead I came home to a garden full of grass.... I emptied the rain gauge out before I left and yesterday I had 3.5" of rain fall in it. It looked like a river running though the garden and one of the flower beds. I added some black mulch to it yesterday. Today I think I will try and cut some river cane and rebuild the garden a little bit. I know I have to hoe out all of those grass clumps... All day

06 APR 2009

Well, I hoed a lot of grass out of the garden just to have it rain again last night. Almost looks like I didn't do anything. The good news is the yellow and red onions are doing well. I found a few sprouts of spinach, a couple small spud sprouts starting to come up, and the rows of strawberries are doing great. The only problem is it is snowing!!! I guess we better cover and hope for the best. Yesterday, I also worked on my worm bin and compost tumbler. I will be setting the tumbler in the ground with some compost. My quick build with my saw horses worked well for about the first week. Link and pictures coming soon....

14APR09

Weather and work as kept me from being in the garden. I had I have been laying down some landscaping fabric. I am not a big fan of weeding all the time so I thought I would give this a try.

19APR09

Well I know that I am kind of slacking on my blog duty's. I am just not sure how people can get on here 10 times a day to fill these things out...
I working on building some trellis thoughtout the garden. planted some sugar snap peas tonight. see if they come up in a couple weeks. I know that it is almost too late in the season, but it has been raining and so cold. I think I am going to try and plant the sweet corn this week as well.

30MAY09

I don't know what to tell you it has been a while. Well these are the lastest pictures from the garden.

The dogs have killed the strawberries, so I am going to make a raised bed just for the berries. I am hoping that next spring I will have a good mess of them.

"Who says that a garden is fat free, I will try to stay oout of the rest of them"I built a cucumber trellis, I have them growing up and already have small cucumbers growing.