Today I took some more shots of the 25X50 foot garden I put in this summer. [there are more pictures here]Until the summer monsoons hit, I've had to water every evening. It's come out well. In this picture, you can see carrotts, onions, peas, lettuce, cucumbers, and the main item, six rows of corn.
A few of the lower rows were over run by bind weed. A New Mexico weed that can lay dormant in the ground for up to 50 years. It's insidious. All the tractoring and roto tilling must have awakened it.
I roto tilled in a huge load of sheep manure that had been well composted [no smell] that I got from a friend who is a weaver [Three Bags Full] and raises her own sheep. So ther is ample supply. Sheep manure is better than cow manure.
I've had no problem with rabbits, but the grubs and grasshoppers are eating up a storm.
2 comments:
What a beautiful garden! You are going to get really healthy eating all that organic produce. Were you a gardener before you moved here, or is this a new experience for you?
Lititia
It's my very first vegetable garden. In San Diego, I had some flowers, not many. A vegetable garden seemed a lot more useful out here. I had no idea how to plant vegetables. And it is all organic. After tilling in the sheep manure and planting, I used only organic kelp and vegetables alive fertilizers.
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