SFG - North Carolina

ralitaco 5/21/2010, 11:34 pm

4-11-10: about 10 days after transplanting store bought plants.
I have romaine and buttercrunch lettuce, tomato plants, cilantro, eggplant, broccoli, cauliflower, strawberry, oregano, basil, rosemary, carrots, onions, jalepeno, bell and yellow fryer peppers.

SFG - North Carolina 04-11-16

another view
SFG - North Carolina 04-11-17

My Cherry tomato plant
SFG - North Carolina 04-11-18

My little Zucchini plant.
SFG - North Carolina 04-11-19

ralitaco 5/21/2010, 11:43 pm

What a difference a few weeks make.
We have been harvesting the lettuce and cilantro.

SFG - North Carolina Jim_s_10

Another view
SFG - North Carolina Jim_s_11

My Cherry Tomato plant
SFG - North Carolina Jim_s_12

My not so little zucchini
SFG - North Carolina Jim_s_13

I found out that the big zucchini leaves can kill onions.

1chichi 5/22/2010, 10:36 am

I love your progression pics! It cool to see that rapid growth.
I am trying to figure out a way to organize my pics to show the progression of some of the plants.

ralitaco 5/20/2015, 10:28 pm

I know it has been almost 5 years to the day since the last post on this thread, but I thought this would be a great place to post pictures of what happens to untreated 2x6's.

I started this thread right after I made the beds and put them in place. I used them regularly that first summer then didn't do anything with them...at all. Last year my older daughter weeded one of the beds but other than that the only activity they saw was by the cats...
Until this year, when I removed the MM, screened it and moved it to new Tabletop 2x8's. I was pleasantly surprised that the weed cloth was still in tact, even with roots poking through it, and that it kept the MM separate from the soil.

Posted originally are the "Before" photos.

ralitaco wrote:4-11-10: ...

another view

Now here are the "After" photos of Un-treated 2x6's a little over 5 years since they were assembled:
SFG - North Carolina 2015-172

I'll have more pictures soon when I actually lift the beds off the ground.

**sanderson** 5/21/2015, 3:13 am

Nice follow-up. Thanks. They may be rotted on the lower insides but they look like you could have gotten a couple or more years if not for the roots.

ralitaco 7/20/2015, 6:10 pm

I finally got out in the yard and pulled up the old 4x4 beds from the ground. They may have lasted another season but I don't think they would have gone much longer. (Just a reminder they were installed right at 5 years ago.)

One of the sides: SFG - North Carolina 2015-018

One of the Corners: SFG - North Carolina 2015-019

Close up of the Corner: SFG - North Carolina 2015-020

The ground AND Roots below the Weed Cloth: SFG - North Carolina 2015-021

**sanderson** 7/21/2015, 3:08 am

Are you going to elevate the new beds to keep roots from encroaching?

ralitaco 7/21/2015, 10:57 am

I am an elevated SFG'er now

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