Growing veggies, 2020
I'm not a great suburban guy. I hate lawn work. But I like trying to grow veggies in the backyard. I realize the economics are hopeless at my skill level, but I like the process, and I like the food when it turns out.
I lack Peggy's mad gardening skills, but I have a better growing season. I think it gets to about 10C, or 50F, by mid-August there. The crops she gets out of the Scottish countryside put me to shame. But I keep trying.
This year I have in service four 4'x4' boxes, divided into one-foot squares. The planned veggies will be okra, green beans, carrots, radishes, tomatoes, cucumbers, and sweet corn. Depending on what fails or what tomatoes I can find - a lot of places have been picked over - I may grow some onion sets.
Here is the setup in the backyard.
There are two shiny new boxes that Rob assembled for me last year out of new materials, like this:
And two old ones assembled out of the old garden box rails:
The first green beans sprouted today, so we are underway!
One whole box is saved for sweet corn. I have an unbroken record of sweet corn failure, so the smart money is on another disaster. Here's hoping for better. Better or worse, I will report the results here.
I lack Peggy's mad gardening skills, but I have a better growing season. I think it gets to about 10C, or 50F, by mid-August there. The crops she gets out of the Scottish countryside put me to shame. But I keep trying.
This year I have in service four 4'x4' boxes, divided into one-foot squares. The planned veggies will be okra, green beans, carrots, radishes, tomatoes, cucumbers, and sweet corn. Depending on what fails or what tomatoes I can find - a lot of places have been picked over - I may grow some onion sets.
Here is the setup in the backyard.
There are two shiny new boxes that Rob assembled for me last year out of new materials, like this:
And two old ones assembled out of the old garden box rails:
The first green beans sprouted today, so we are underway!
One whole box is saved for sweet corn. I have an unbroken record of sweet corn failure, so the smart money is on another disaster. Here's hoping for better. Better or worse, I will report the results here.
posted by Joe at 7:18 PM
2 Comments:
Well done Joe! I applaud your efforts! I know you hate yard work but this is growing food for your family! We can't eat grass! :-)
Sadly, we'd need an extensive grass cookbook if we had to rely on my gardening. But hope, unlike a lot of what I try to grow, springs eternal.
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