My Garden

Gardening this year has been fun.  I wish I could have gotten an earlier start to it, but it was sooooo rainy at the end of April and first half of May.  I think I finally got everything planted by June 1st.  Unfortunately I didn't start out having a fence, so I suspect that the bunnies ate most of the peas, green beans, and corn.  By the time I got a fence mid June I realized that those 3 things weren't going to grow, so I replanted green beans and corn (which are both doing great now).  It was so hot by then that I gave up on the peas.  Here's how it looks now:



Left: basil & lettuce Middle: cabbage Right: broccoli



Repeats from last year:

• lettuce (which still tastes horrible; we have not had much luck with it)
• tomatoes
• peppers
• peas
• green beans

New this year:

• corn
• cabbage
• herbs: mint, basil, oregano, coriander
• onions
• radishes 
• broccoli
• arugula
• sunflower
• zucchini



green beans



Also something new I'm trying is a compost box to add to my soil for next year's garden.  I was pretty proud of myself one day when I got out some wood, nails, and hammer and my daughter and I built a compost box.  I was always scared to try it because I didn't want our back yard to smell like stinky garbage, but the more I read about it, I was convinced I should at least give it a shot.  Now I am getting in the habit of saving everything in my little ice cream bucket that I can add to it outside each night.  It makes me feel good that I am saving that much stuff from going in the trash.

Stuff to put in the compost:

1/3 "green": 

•Vegetables & Fruit

•Grass Clippings

•Fresh Manure

•Coffee Grounds (you can put the filters in too)

•Young Hedge Trimmings

•Seaweed (although that would be hard to find in land-locked Indiana)

•Feathers

•Plant cuttings

•Hair

2/3 "brown":


•Leaves


•Hay & Straw

•Paper & Cardboard

•Woody Prunings

•Eggshells (crush them up first)

•Tea Bags

•Corn Cobs

•Sawdust

compost box