Schlatter Family Site

Our Garden
as of
Mid-May 2009
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We intended to post photos of our garden every few days as it developed, but, as with a lot of good intentions, it didn't work out that way.

The last photos of the garden that we posted were in early April and a lot has happened since then. 

•  We built two more raised beds; purchased 7 tons each of topsoil and compost; used the wheelbarrow to fill the two new beds half-and-half with topsoil and compost; tilled the soil in the new beds.
•  Kept the tomato and herb seeds growing.
•  Purchased some plants.
•  As the weather warmed, planted seed and plants.
•  Spread straw mulch over all the beds.

Here are photos of our garden as of 16 May 2009.

Here's a photo of the entire garden.  The octagonal bed in the foreground is the herb garden.  The large green plants in the center are salad greens -- lettuce, spinach, and a mesculum mix.  Rosemary is in the two green pots (one in the foreground, another on the other side of the bed).  Other herbs are:  cilantro; basil; parsley; chives; oregano; thyme; and sage.  The hose feeds a sprinkler that is staked down in the center of the herb bed so we can water the herbs.

Next in line is this bed -- from right to left:  broccoli (2 rows); Brussels sprouts (1 row); onions (four rows; two varieties); peppers (3 rows -- jalapeno, hot banana, sweet banana, green bell peppers).  The black thing winding through the bed is a soak hose that is staked down.  We attach a hose to this soak hose to water this bed.

The next bed is the tomato bed.  Right to left:  one row of okra (planted a week earlier, just beginning to sprout); five rows of tomatoes:  Big Boy (hybrid); and, the following heirloom tomatoes:  Dona; Martino's Roma; Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter; Green Zebra; Brandywine Red; Beefsteak; Rutgers; Rutgers Improved; Believe It or Not; and, Aunt Gertie's Gold.

Follow this link to page 2 of photos from 16 May 2009.