Schlatter Family Site

Our Garden
as of
7 June 2009

We have done a lot of work in the garden since the last photos were posted in mid-May.  Here are some photos with explanations of what we have done.

This photo shows an overall view of the garden and a close-up of my thumb.  The octagonal bed in the foreground is our herb and salad garden.  The leafy plants in the center of the photo that extend from the near edge of the garden to the center are salad greens -- spinach, lettuce, and mesculum greens.  The next bed is broccoli, Brussel sprouts, onions, and pepper.  Next -- the bed with the tall wooden stakes -- is the tomato garden.  At the far end slightly offset to the left is a bed of potatoes, squash, and cucumbers.  To the right, not in a raised bed, is corn and beans.

This bed contains -- left to right:  peppers (Jalapeno, bell, sweet banana, hot banana); onions; Brussel sprouts; broccoli.  All beds are mulched with straw and all have a soak hose laid out throughout the bed.

Here is the tomato bed -- 26 plants.  The tallest ones on the right are Rutgers tomatoes that we purchased as plants.  We raised all the other tomato plants  from seed.  Here's an article written earlier that describes our tomatoes.  The stakes are pressure-treated 2X2 -- we buy 12-foot long 2X2 and cut them in half to get 6-foot stakes.  We drive one stake in the ground next to each tomato plant and tie the plants to the stakes with jute twine.  I trim my tomato plants so there are only 3-4 main stems.

This bed contains, left to right:  three rows of potatoes; one row summer squash; one row zucchini squash; one row cucumbers.  The cucumbers are on the right side of the bed; the long poles are for the cucumber vines to climb.  The long, narrow bed to the right of the cucumbers is the asparagus bed.  We started the asparagus this spring -- will take two years before we get asparagus.

Five rows, left to right:  okra; pole beans; three rows of corn.  The two tall posts are 4X4 posts with two 2X2 posts set between them.  We run string between these posts to give the beans supports on which to climb.

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