2013 Garden Expansion

Below you can see the most current updates to the garden.  We decided to add some decorative touches this year so that it looked more like a garden and less like "giant dog pin" in the yard.  It started with buying 9 Gothic fence posts to add some detail.  Then our amazing neighbor had extra landscape stones and let us have them.  We decided to make 2 flower beds which will be planted to attract beneficial insects.  We added compost to the beds and I moved the birdbath, birdhouse and some shepherds hooks from the front yard to the new flower beds.  The last step was to add some stepping stones and mulch between the raised beds.

Garden expanded for 2013.  Bed #1 starts on the left.

The compost tumblers are in constant need of carbon materials to balance out the nitrogen (mostly our kitchen scraps).  We had leaves left in our garden from last fall so I decided to rake them up and move them closer to the compost so I could add them easily to the tumblers. These stakes and the chicken wire are recycled from our very first 4 x 4 garden!  Things have certainly expanded since then.

Leaf pile

The compost tumblers are in constant need of carbon materials to balance out the nitrogen (mostly our kitchen scraps).  We had leaves left in our garden from last fall so I decided to rake them up and move them closer to the compost so I could add them easily to the tumblers. These stakes and the chicken wire are recycled from our very first 4 x 4 garden!  Things have certainly expanded since then. 

Compost tumblers

Bed #1 planted with- (3) Parsley, (4) 2yr. Asparagus crowns, (25) 1 yr. Jersey Supreme Asparagus, and (16) Peas. 
Bed #2 planted with- (16) Peas.  More plants to follow.

New cedar raised beds (#1and #2)

Asparagus & Parsley

(4) 2 yr. Asparagus and (3) Parsley

1 yr. Asparagus starting to grow

Bed #3 planted with- (32) White Onions, (64) Stuttgart Yellow Onions, (32) Red Onions and (16) Peas. More plants to follow. 
Bed #4 planted with- (16) Peas. More plants to follow.

2 year old pine raised beds (#3 and #4)

Peas

Onion tops with peas in the background

Onions

Center of the garden ready for future watermelon plants.

Stepping stones

Stepping stones between raised beds