March, 2013

We started off the month planting all of our transplants and are ending the month covering them up to protect them from a freeze we're expecting tonight. Mother Nature is so confused!! 

Once we got all of the beds finished, we spent several days working on the irrigation system. We have established 3 watering zones, each of them on a timer so that it will be watered for 45 minutes every other day. The two 16' beds are on a zone, the four 8' beds and two 6' beds are on a zone, and the three 12' beds are on a zone. Dean has worked incredibly hard to get this garden up and going this year- without his hard work it wouldn't have gotten completed.

Let me take you on a tour of our garden!

One of the original 16' beds containing spinach, carrots, lettuce & swiss chard.

The other 16' bed containing cabbages (planted at the end of December), onions and collard greens.

One of the 12' beds with straight and crookneck squash, zucchini and bell pepper.

This 12' bed contains heirloom tomato and eggplants. We'll be adding additional tomato and pepper plants to this bed.

This is the hybrid tomato bed, along with a lemon cucumber and bell pepper plants.

Ah, the potato beds. Closest to us are the Yukon Gold potatoes and in the next bed are Red Norland. Both are early season potatoes.

This is Leah's strawberry bed, the only non-SFG bed we have.

We also have three beds that I don't have pictures of right this moment. There are two 2'x8' beds with cantaloupe and cucumbers and a 2'x6' bed with watermelon.