We spent a very busy June canning and preserving a lot of wonderful produce coming out of the Haws Haven Experimental Farm, Our pantry is full of good stuff! The following pictures show that everything is off except for the Butternut squash that is still producing some squash and actually is still producing some flowers.
The above pictures show that I have decided to prepare grow boxes using 4x8x16 fence block over the entire garden. It looks nice to have straight rows and a confined area for planting and another for walking. The planting area is 31 inches outside block edge to block edge. The walkways are 12 inches clear. I wish I could make them a little wider, but I would have to give up on a row. I am in the process of adding grass clippings, leaves and manure in the planting areas.
I managed to do all of this without uprooting the bell peppers and chilli peppers to keep a promise I made to my wife to not destroy her bell pepper plants.
I hope to plant pinto beans and black eyed peas within the next week in two of the rows and save the other rows for a winter garden to be planted in October.
I added a wash table and wash basin at one end of the garden to keep dirt from going inside the house. The wash basin drains into a bucket that I carry to areas of the garden that seem to need it most.
