Tuesday, June 21, 2011

growing more from A to Zucchini and Zinnias

A portion of the yard near the barn has poorly-growing grass, so I tilled that section to make room for more experimental gardening.
Then I planted cucumber, zucchini, butternut squash, and cantaloupe on little mounds, a row of peas, a row of beans, and a few rows of zinnias and sunflowers. A few weeks later, I added tomato plants and another kind of bean (from Trinidad... the beans themselves grow to be longer than 3 feet!) in between the mounds.
Later I added a basil and a habenero plant! And now, 37 days later, my back garden looks like this:

1 comment:

Josiah said...

Looks great Jess!