Schlatter Family Site

General Garden Photos

Here are some photos of our garden as it was on the morning of 20 March 2009.

This first photo was taken while I was standing on the west end of our garden shed/workshop (that's the shadow of the shed in the foreground) looking west across the garden plot.

We are putting most of our garden into raised beds.  I used pressure-treated 2X12 lumber, 12 feet long, to make the beds.

•  The bed in the foreground will be our herb garden.  It is made of 2X12's cut into 6-foot lengths and shaped into an octagon -- makes a bed that is 15X15 feet.
• The other two beds beyond the octagonal herb garden are 12X12 feet and will hold various veggies
• Next to the black wheelbarrow is a 3X12 foot bed for asparagus.
• The structure at the end of the garden is a compost pile where I pile grass clippings, vegetable waste from the kitchen, and other compost material.
• I purchased 10 cubic yards each of composted straw and horse manure (the black stuff under the blue tarp in the distance) and topsoil (the stuff under the silver tarp in the distance).  I then used my wheelbarrow to fill each bed half and half, topsoil and compost -- took about 15 wheelbarrow loads of each to fill each bed -- that's about 30 wheelbarrow loads per bed.  Took two days to fill the beds.
• Then, I ran my Troy-Bilt tiller back and forth and back and forth over the topsoil-compost mixture in each bed to thoroughly mix the soil.

 Here is one of the 12X12 foot raised beds.  In this one we have set out two rows of broccoli, one row of Brussels sprouts, and six rows of onions (red and sweet yellow).