Successful Gardening

We had a successful vegetable garden this year, after not having one for several years. It wasn't as good as Brett's 1st Place garden that was about fifty times as big, but we got a lot to eat. We planted peas, beans, onions, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers and potatoes. We also put chicken wire around every side of the garden to keep the rabbits out. I plugged all holes. In the past, the rabbits eat the peas, beans and carrots before they matured.

After we enriched the soil with bag after bag of manure, compost and peat moss we started planting. Our soil seems to turn into sand in a couple of months. But this year with the1400 pounds of stuff I tilled in, the soil actually stayed nice.










This is only about a third of the potatoes we got. We filled almost three 5 gallon buckets with potatoes, some of them were as large as grapefruits.



This is a portion of the carrots we harvested. We planted only one packet of seeds and after you scatter them and thin them out, you end up with only one fifth of them. We got the equivalent of at least ten large bags of carrots at Cub. I sliced and cooked them all up (use sugar instead of salt in the water to sweeten them) and have enough for at least 25 meals for the two of us. We got about ten meals each from the peas and beans.


We has such good success that we may expand it next year and rotate crops. Judy does not want to do tomatoes next year because we just didn't do anything with the ones we harvested. But we could make tomato sauce. I will have to get Brett's recipe.