The current heated temperatures belie this growing season is cruising towards a frosty date! So, here is, better late then never, an update about my raised bed garden! A report on phase I is discussed in a previous post. Phase I was completed in July 2014. I completed both phases II and III in late Fall 2014. This update consists of numerous photos!
As this project was completed by one person, me, providing almost all the labor, performing the work in phases seemed most appropriate.
Above is a simple sketch showing the layout plan before I began construction. This sketch does NOT relate that my yard is sloped! Except for a few box size adjustments, the installed boxes follow the sketch.
Important to note, the phase I garden beds produced some excellent food during their shortened 2014 growing season. Above, me harvesting a nice zucchini in late 2014.
A photo of the final zucchinis of our 2014 garden. Some large zucchinis for bread and other miscellaneous recipes AND two single bite zucchinis...which disappeared in short order.
This photo shows the garden beds of phase I in late Fall and the three boxes of phase II completed and installed. Also, I am applying the linseed oil preservative to one of the two boxes in phase III.
As designed in the sketch above, all the garden boxes have been completed and installed in late 2014.
A photo taken in January 2015. Brrr! Actually that would feel quite nice right now.
As at start of Spring 2015...
Our first radishes!
And a tasty strawberry. We were able to transplant some strawberry plants into a box in late 2014. They only produced a few during the 2015 spring, but we are really looking forward the 2016 spring harvest, as they have spread quite a bit!
Before the 2015 garden jungle...
Our garden exploded!
We had a visitor! We lost a fair number of cherry tomatoes to its voracious appetite, but this Hornworm eventually disappeared. (Or he was so well camouflaged that we could not find him.)
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