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Continue reading →: 2017 Garden Plans: Containers
This is the final post looking at what we are planning to do in the Demo Garden this year. From here on out, we will be looking at what’s already been growing while I’ve still been catching up on the garden planning posts. Most years we do either flowers or…
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Continue reading →: 2017 Garden Plans: Beds 8, 9, and 10
We are almost done surveying the garden plans for this year. After this post, there are just the containers and the Prairie Star areas to talk about. Beds 8, 9, and 10 are the square, 4’x4′ beds along the back edge of the garden. For several years, Bed 8 has…
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Continue reading →: 2017 Garden Plans: Accessible Gardens
Last year, we planted a lot of tomatoes, cucumbers, and other warm season veggies in the accessible beds. This year, we swung the other way and have planted (and already planted) a wide variety of cool season vegetables. In the tiered garden, we removed the raspberry that really hadn’t done…
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Garden Cleanup & Spring Planting
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Continue reading →: Garden Cleanup & Spring PlantingWe have kicked off our planting season in the Demonstration Garden with work days the last two weeks. We went from a garden that was full of volunteer wheat and cheat to a garden that had the beginnings of our plans implemented for the season. As you can see, the…
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Continue reading →: 2017 Garden Plans: Beds 5 & 6 – Tomatoes
Several years ago, when tomato grafting was a relatively new technique, we did try out the grafting method in the demo garden. However, that turned out to be 2011, when it got hot so early and stayed hot for so long that pretty much no one had any tomatoes to…