Donna Young's Blog: My Vegetable Garden

My Vegetable Garden

Donna Young @ 11 July 2008
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This is today's harvest from my small backyard garden. From this we will eat the beans for dinner. I will dry the okra, zucchini, red clover, and spearmint. By the end of the day, I will have eaten the tomatoes. Since taking this photograph, they are already reduced by half. My love of fresh homegrown tomatoes, especially the small ones, is one of the reasons that I have a garden.

Occasionally I take a picture of my garden from inside my house. Below are two pictures that show the growth and changes over the past month.

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June above and July below

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Rows, left to right:

far left, Row 1: okra, flowers
Row 2 bush beans, herbs, zucchini, flowers
Row 3: tomatoes, basil, herbs, flowers
Row 4: peppers, basil, chamomile, and flowers
far right, Row 5: sweet potatoes, flowers, and mint

Happy Gardening!

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Melanie · Jul 11, 10:56 PM · #

Beautiful! I see you have red tomatoes.
Donna Young · Jul 11, 11:33 PM · #

Thanks Melanie I love to eat those tomatoes.
Elaine · Jul 12, 04:40 PM · #

What a great garden and such a harvest!!

I love tomatoes myself and have been know to eat them for a snack, the grape ones especially but cherry will do. If I have tomatoes when I make a salad I am just so much happier

Next year Mark & I are looking at getting a portable greenhouse so that I can grow tomatoes earlier and also some cucumbers. I do still want to set up an area where we`ll have raised beds so that I can grow lettuce - that doesn`t need a green house to grow well up here.

Thanks for helping me to really want to garden, never really have before but seeing your garden grow and gaining tips from you has renewed my interest.
Ginny · Jul 12, 05:51 PM · #

Your garden is lovely. We`re still waiting for ripe tomatoes, but the cucumber harvest has begun. Sounds like you`ll be putting up so great produce for winter.
Tressa · Jul 13, 03:00 PM · #

Your garden is so pretty! Not a weed in sight. I love zucchini right out of the garden. I can eat it raw. Yum!
Donna Young · Jul 13, 09:14 PM · #

Tressa, you do! I`ll have to try it raw someday.

That weed-free-ness of my garden is from lots and lots of hard mulch-hauling work. The mulch I put down is paying off! The only weed that I really have to work at removing is the awful bermuda grass that wants to creep into the garden from the edges.

I am so glad the mulch is working because the garden is yielding something everyday now and I need time for working with the yield instead of pulling weeds or hoeing.
Appliejuice · Jul 14, 04:32 PM · #

Nice!

Our garden died while we were gone. We did get a few tomatoes, two hot peppers, and small onions. The vine on our watermellon died, and so the watermellons did not make it. We`ll try again next year.
Lisa · Jul 19, 12:22 PM · #

Oh Donna, your garden is so pretty. I love the bird bath in the middle. What a harvest! Do you make tea out of the spearmint? I did not remember that mulch cut down on weeds so much. That is a good idea. We just have our turtle garden in a little pool on the porch. He eats anything vegetable I plant down to the roots as soon as it sprouts and he ate two grown kale plants within 2 weeks to nubs. I have sucessfully grown two basil plants in pots but other than that we just have house plants and flowers.

Sorry about you garden Applie:( Hope it comes back next year.
Donna Young · Jul 20, 03:11 AM · #

Thank you Lisa. Yes, I use the spearmint leaves for tea and have found that powdered spearmint gives a minty flavor to baked goods such as brownies.

The harvest keeps increasing and keeping me busy picking it and putting it away for later.

Your turtle sounds like he likes to eat what you give him.

Applie, I am sorry that your garden died while you were gone.
Ginger · Jul 22, 02:45 AM · #

Your soil must be a lot better than our Virginia clay...I love looking at peoples gardens. I like that you take the pictures to show how your garden is growing.

I am hoping to get Randy to agree to doing some terrace gardening. That would be the only way we could do it in our back yard.

You must weed that garden an awful lot to keep it so clean....