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| The garden is a good place for meditating. |
Even though the
sweet potato harvest was not so good, I still have high hopes for the fall garden. Sometimes I think fall gardening is more a matter of luck than skill. And I feel lucky! No real bug problems so far, and believe me, I am knocking wood whenever I even think about this.
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| We decorate our veggie gardens! |
I have these two little former square foot gardens, which have reverted to simply raised beds. I like the neat look of the little dividers, but Mel and I have parted ways. I think the mix he recommends is to peaty for our hot climate and I feel a little guilty about using up a nonrenewable resource like peat anyway. Mixed in with the flowers, we have garlic, cabbage, fennel, oregano, two kinds of chives and marjoram. Those are carrots hiding under the skirts of a calendula.
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| Mostly greens, onions and flowers. |
Lettuce and onions mix it up with nasturtiums and sweet peas. Almost time to pick that one row of lettuce. Just in time for Thanksgiving!
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| The tomato forest with lettuce seedlings. |
And speaking of Thanksgiving, it's always my hope that I'll have fresh tomatoes. I'm getting a little anxious about that, though! The tomatoes are probably 7 feet tall now and each one is covered with green tomatoes, but not a single one looks even remotely like it's beginning to ripen. At the foot of the tomato forest, where the sweet potatoes were, I've planted more lettuce and carrots.
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| The frontrunners. |
Will they be ripe for Thanksgiving? I don't think so!
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I want that squirrel. I could meditate too if the little rodents were all stone casts in my garden.
ReplyDeleteI've never quite gotten into square foot gardening, although I know the method. Way too uniform and restrictive, and a bit gimmicky. Your garden looks great--so different than mine that is now parsley and dirt.
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