Our kitchen garden is located on the south side of our house. Last year, we covered the lawn with raised beds and gravel paths. We designed an area for sitting in the middle of the garden. Our property slopes down to a low retaining wall, so we built two terraced beds into the slope. We also planted fruit trees and strawberries on the slope.
The view looking East.
Cabbage Patch
Young Cabbages are protected from hungry birds in chicken wire domes.
We have a large parking strip and wanted to utilize it for vegetables. We didn't want to buy lumber for beds, so we cut the sod into squares to stack for the walls.
Onions- Yellow, Red, and Walla Walla
Kale- leftover from Fall
Potatoes are coming up- we planted Red, Yukon Gold, Blue, and Russets
Peach Blossom
On the north side of our house we planted Raspberries to complement the existing Blackberries.
Blueberry Blossoms
Our garden as grown substantially over the past four years. We started small with just two raised beds that gave us about 75 square feet of vegetable garden. It was a good start, but too small to grow everything we wanted to try.
Last Spring we did the huge expansion getting rid of most of the lawn and taking over the parking strip. Now we have about 600 square feet to grow vegetables in. In addition to our raised beds we planted 5 fruit trees and strawberries into the landscape. We have another 60 square feet for blackberries, blueberries and raspberries. Also, tucked along our retaining wall are herbs like thyme and rosemary and just recently I planted two grape vines and a dwarf kiwi vine.
That's the quick and dirty tour.
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