This time we decided to change crops in our raised bed. Two rows of "Silver King" sweet corn with a row of green beans in front of it. If the Native Americans could make it work together, we could try it. The bed isn't large enough for the squash so we had to settle for "two sisters" rather than the well known "three sisters" planting. Our raised garden bed this year is in honor of the small amount of Terry's Native American DNA. Note to self: Trim grass around garden bed BEFORE taking photo.
We enjoyed a successful first year with our garden and now we are ready to begin phase two. Terry laid stone blocks next to the storage shed and dug up a nice plot for our rhubarb bed. So far we have five rhubarb plants that have been named George, Harold, Scarlet, Willis and Rudy. If they thrive, we will enlarge the bed and add a few more plants. We like to freeze rhubarb for winter use and also have enough to make strawberry/rhubarb or cherry/rhubarb jelly.
Our back yard isn't large but gets plenty of sun so we opted to build an asparagus bed using cinder blocks. We won't do that again. The bed is four feet wide, sixteen feet long. and three courses high. You don't want to know how many cinder blocks we had to haul home. A little later we found raised bed kits at Sam's Club. They are made of resin and are four feet square. We bought six, assembled them, filled them with topsoil and added plants. We managed to grow zucchini. yellow squash, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, and cucumbers.
Finally found the photo that shows the whole garden. The asparagus only partially filled the cinder block bed the first year. We had lettuce planted in the west end of the bed and the east end was empty. This photo shows the six resin beds filled with various vegetables. The gardening "bug" has bitten us and we are already planning for next year.
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