Four Gardens

Last year I planted one garden.  This year I planted four.

This is our backyard garden. 52 feet by 20 feet, it is 1040 square feet, which does not include the asparagus patch, the herb garden, and the 2 fig trees.  This is Garden #1.  Since the entire blog is basically about this garden, I'm not going to spend time writing it in this post.

Garden #2 is the garden out at Adventure Camp.  The camp rangers tilled it, and during two different days this spring, I planted seed and transplants.  The picture above was taken in late summer.  It got really weedy, but it actually produced, as evidenced by...

I also planted some things in the camp garden that were experimental.  One of the best producers was okra.  I'm not a fan of okra, but it grew very well with zero maintenance.

Also, okra flowers are surprisingly attractive.

Garden #3 was in front of my office.  We installed a garden box last year, and this year I filled it with dirt, compost, and 9 yellow beefsteak tomato plants.

It has been very productive...we have harvested dozens of large, meaty yellow tomatoes.  I grew yellow 'maters at the home garden, too...but the office garden tomatoes were far superior.  I saved seed for next year from one perfect specimen from this garden.

Garden #4 was at my wife's workplace.  With the property owner, she and I built a garden box in front of the shop.  Later, we put in sunflower seed, tomato plants, and marigold seed.

With all the rain we've had, this garden box needed zero assistance once planted.  It produced cherry tomatoes.

The sunflowers that we planted were the moulin rouge variety.  They are a deep dark burgundy.

My wife has way more claim to this garden than I do.  She initiated it and made decisions about what would be planted.  I just helped.

So, those are the four gardens.  I'm very happy about how the two workplace gardens turned out.  With the camp garden, I would have done some things differently.  Nonetheless, I will replant all three satellite gardens next year.