First Photos

I decided to share my first garden photos. I built my first SFG last year (4x12), but we had a lot of rain, so I didn't really get it going until well into May. Thanks to this forum, I've learned a lot since then. My MM needed some work after originally using poor-quality, purchased compost, but this year it is coming along better after my amendments. Also, I made a hoop house for tulle to cover 3 of the 4 rows, leaving the rear row of squares open for my trellises. Here's a photo I made last week of this year's version of that original SFG showing the new tulle cover:



Forgive all the ugly cardboard around the beds. I have put it down to control the grass, and plan to mulch over it soon, once the grass is dead. Below is a photo of the back side of that same bed, showing my trellises. I have cattle panels on 2 of the 3 trellises, having replaced the worn-out nylon net trellis. I'll put a 3rd cattle panel in the middle once I get the summer vine crops planted. The peas have got a good start, and this week they've begun to put on lots of blooms:



Here's a peek inside the tulle. You can see lettuces, spinach, leeks, carrots, chard, beets, broccoli, cilantro, sage:



This year, I built several new gardens and used my own homegrown compost as well as better variety of quality composts for the MM. I built a 4X8 bed adjacent to my original SFG. I plan to grow squash, zucchini, and sweet potatoes in it. I have one squash trellis up, and another ready to put up once it is needed:



I also built two 8x2 beds on either side of a nasty guy wire (to keep me from running into the wire with my mower). In the downhill bed, I am planting about 12 varieties of tomatoes, trying out the string trellis technique this year. Although I took this photo a week ago, the plants are already much larger today! Guess that MM really is better this year! The uphill bed has herbs in it now, and I plan to plant bush beans and blackeye peas in the rest of the bed once it warms up more:



On the opposite end, I built a 4x4 strawberry bed. I have about 2/3 in everbearing plants and 1/3 in June-bearing. Some of my everbearing plants are bare root, so you don't see them peeking out of the straw mulch yet:

Lookin' GREAT Doc!

Nice garden. I look forward to seeing updates!

WoW airdoc Your garden is impressive
Thanks for sharing!

Wowzers! Look at you gro!! Looks great!!

thanks for sharing!!

your garden looks great!!

hugs

rose

You're doing a terrific job with your garden.

More than nice... I love your hoops house..

My wife talked me into 50.. yes 50 strawberry plants this year.

You really have a nice garden

Rod - with a 4x4 square, planting 4 plants/square, you get 64 strawberry plants! Go for it!

Are you using netting or fencing for your trelleses? They look good and sturdy!

I used nylon netting last year, as described by Mel in ANSFG. At the end of the summer, however, I found the netting was falling to pieces. This year, I replaced the netting with cattle panels, and I am very pleased with the improvement. I expect that they will last as long as I want to garden!

1airdoc wrote:Rod - with a 4x4 square, planting 4 plants/square, you get 64 strawberry plants! Go for it!

They are in the ground .. oh my