Veggie and Flower Gardens Many Pics.

We Have had gardens surounding our house since we built it in 71. Many of the plants in them are originals and offshoots that were dug up in the woods and out of swamps and fields. Our veggie gardens provide us with all of our needs year round. We have been harvesting Asparagus about a month now with a few setbacks from frost. Had spinich last night, and the strawberries have set lots of fruit. Last year wet weather rotted a lot of them, and the blite took most of the mators. Everything else did well.Lots of squash cuks green beans. Broccoli, califlower,cabage for krout, and brussel sprouts and carrots. We also grow our own dill, garlic,chives,parsley onions, We have been using garden boxes for about 12 years now. I bring cow poo down scraped up off the blacktop barnyard up at the farm by the trailer load 1.5yds, about 6 loads a year. That is mixed with all our yard and housold compostables (paper, cardboard, food scraps),grass clippings, leaves, saw dust and sand. I turn this 15-20yd pile( not in the pics.)about 3 times each summer with the Kubota and loader. Makes real nice light soil to work with. We also apply lime and fert. as needed. Hope I havn't boared you all.

Thanx for the pictures! Looks really nice! Greg

Nice place and beautiful garden-----noticed you have lights out there....any nite pics of the gardens?

Thanks for sharing ----Tim

Thanks for the pictures they are beautiful. Here in Oklahoma the hot dry wind will not let us have a garden like that. Hay meadow can be beautiful if we get rain.
gitrib

Love your pictures! Are the days longer than 24hrs in your area? Where do you find time to maintain your place to such a level of perfection?

"Where do you find time to maintain your place to such a level of perfection?"

I see you use the word "we" frequently in your narrative; this leads me to believe you have an active "working" partner. That"s a wonderful thing!!

Hay guys, I practice selective photography. The other half of "we" is in the pics. No not the dogs! I do the construction work, the wifey does the planting and maintainance.Weeding is minimal in the veggie boxes, and the river washed #2 stone covering black plastic between them stifels weed growth around the boxes. Many of our flowers are forms of weeds. We don,t like formal flower gardens because of maintainance time. We let them grow at random for the most part. As you see, rocks and old stumps work for us also, no maintainance there. The man made pond and stream have been issues. Also notice our use of thime and sedium in walkways, and on walls. We have lazyman gardens. It also helps to have good neighbors.

OK Old, the guantlet has been throwed down And no more fuzzy pictures to hide the dog food!

Gordo