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Continue reading →: 2016 Garden Plans: Bed 5 – Pollinators, Flowers, & Herbs
We’ve had strawberries in this garden for the past couple of years, but this year we are going to remove them and shift our flowers/herbs/pollinators garden to this garden bed. Most of these are plants that we’ve had for several years in one form or another, either in this garden…
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Continue reading →: 2016 Garden Plans: Bed 4 – Oriental Garden
In 2010, we did an Asian garden and in 2013 we did an Indian (Asia) garden. This year we wanted to reprise the theme while focusing on specifically southeast Asian / Chinese / Japanese vegetables. As you can see, we have yet another garden with lots of different varieties and…
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Continue reading →: 2016 Garden Plans: Bed 3 – Tomatoes!
Finally, the garden bed that many of you have been waiting to see…the tomatoes! Tomatoes are easily the most popular garden vegetable, and most visitors to our garden want to see how our tomatoes are doing. We don’t have a theme for the tomatoes this year, other than trying to…
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Continue reading →: 2016 Garden Plans: Bed 2 – For the Love of Purple
Our second garden bed this year is featuring things purple. I think the name that has waffled between “K-State Purple Garden” and “For the Love of Purple” garden. At any rate, we are growing and eating purple plants! As you can see, we have gone a little bit crazy trying…
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Continue reading →: 2016 Garden Plans: Bed 1, Continued
While we are planning on growing a wide variety of peppers in most of Bed 1, we have the two square tiers that are also part of Bed 1. We chose to plant lettuce in those beds for the spring, followed by cover crops, followed by a fall planting of…