The Garden Died Today

The 2009 gardening season is officially over for me.

Sad.

We had a hard, solid frost last night.

Everything is D-E-A-D.

But, it's Ok.

Don't cry for me gardening people!

I'm ready for a rest.

And there is always the gardener's mantra: "Next year, it WILL be BETTER!"

I still have to clean everything up, dig my sweet potatoes, plant garlic, ect., ect.

You get the idea.

It never ends!

Wall Me In

I am in love with vertical gardening!

It is possible to grow 10x more plants in the same space that I had 1 planted before.

This is my second year using the square foot gardening method of vertical gardening.

Last year I used zip ties to connect the plastic netting to the metal conduit arches, but this year I stole an idea from my Dad.

I wrapped twine in between the netting holes and around the metal conduit.

It makes the netting taunt, but flexible.

In the back green pole beans - In the front cucumbers

Above: Close up of Tomato wall #2

Below: Tomato wall #2

P.S. The tomato walls are 8 1/2 feet tall!


My First Ripe Tomato!!!
There were 2, but I ate one.......and then I ate the other one too!

Cucumber wall close up.

Green bean wall from the side.

Eggplants and peppers in the front.

Tomato wall #1

Overall garden view: Empty beds - harvested garlic and a finally crop of peas, then I took the vines out.

Guess which Ladies like pea vines?

All of them!

Overall garden view: Grow summer squash! That's Butter Stick summer squash. Very good - makes yummy squash pickles.

Overall garden view.

If you want to see more pics of my garden and directions to make the metal conduit arches
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