prairie point

veggie garden

This is our vegetable garden. Those are potatoes in front. There is a row of carrots behind them which you can't see. That is rebar sticking up in the back with 2-liter soda bottles hanging on them. There is a tomato plant at the bottom of each one. Later we will use the rebar as tomato stakes and tie the plants to them with twist ties. We don't need the soda bottles any more but we were using them as mini-greenhouses to keep the plants warm at night. The peppers are kind of interspersed with the tomatoes this year. There are a few other things in there too. You can see some onions at the extreme left.

We started the garden about five years ago using a series of 6 by 6 foot boxes built with cedar fence pickets. Then it evolved into this. Tricia likes to walk out barefooted to pick the veggies before dinner, so she wanted a paved path to walk on. Building the path around all four sides of the garden was a chore in itself.