Renemarie's Gail's half acre garden

Created on Wednesday, 04 Jun 08

I grew up with a large vegetable garden. Dad loved to garden. As a child I hated it: hoeing, planting, weeding, work, work, work. As an adult I found that I loved it: hoeing, planting, weeding, nurturing, nurturing, nurturing. I never lived anywhere as an adult where I could have a garden. When my long time boyfriend moved into his childhood home that he inherited, it had a HUGE blackberry patch. He said it was his Dad’s old garden plot. It took a couple years to clear it out by hand and a couple more before I had a decent garden. Now I have a beautiful garden 20′×80′. I am still making additions and improvements every year.

Organic Garden

Garden Type: Edible | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Clay

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Day 136

Beets

Gotta have those beets. I love them in beef stew. My boys say "We...

Planted on 19 Jul 08
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Day 150

Carrots

Daucus carota subsp. sativus

2 beds 6" wide by 18' long. I was just going to do one row, but I ...

Planted on 05 Jul 08
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Day 151

Spinach

Spinacia oleracea

Planted one 18' row. This is savoy variety. I've planted it three...

Planted on 04 Jul 08
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Day 167

Blue Lake runner beans

Phaseolus vulgaris

I never have much luck with beans. The cold, birds, or deer always...

Planted on 18 Jun 08
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Day 184

Winter squash

Cucurbita moschata

Neighbor across the street gave me 7 starts from his heirloom sweet...

Planted on 01 Jun 08
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Day 213

Triple Crown Blackberry

Rubus fruticosus

We have a hill on our side of the property line next to the garden ...

Planted on 03 May 08
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Fig

Ficus carica

I always wanted a fig tree, ever since I figured out that figs were...

Planted in Jul 2007
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Bronze Fennel

Foeniculum vulgare

I bought this plant at the Master Gardener's spring sale. I liked ...

Planted in Apr 2005
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Himalayan blackberry

Rubus armeniacus

I beat these non-native, invasive intruders back to a small patch a...
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Evergreen blackberry

rubus laciniatus

My boyfriend calls them September berries, and I have heard them ca...
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Chives

Allium schoenoprasum

A very gifted gardener I worked with gave me a clump of chives. I'...
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