Garden Insanity

Its that time of the year again.....summertime!  As the years have gone by that has increasingly meant fewer students and more vegetables for me.  Being the first week of May, I have just finished most of the major setup on this year's garden.  There are still seeds to sow and plants to transplant, but the structures and irrigation are set.  Here are some photos of the process.

I constructed three trellises in the garage during my trips back over the past month.  Here is the prototype.

 I tilled the garden with the help of my new friend....big yeller!  The white tarp in the back is a row cover over some swiss chard and brussel sprouts.  The shrub that stays in that same spot every year is rosemary.

 The first two trellises in, the row cover off.

 All three trellises in, landscape fabric on the main bed to keep the weeds down, and irrigation in.  The back row will have popcorn growing vertically while squash and melon grow along the ground.  The bed with the rosemary in it will have sunflowers and something else....maybe some of the flowers CJ picked out at the flower store the other week.  The main bed already has seeds sown for purple speckled limas, gourds and okra.  I will transplant some tomato, jalepeno, eggplant and tomatillo before I head back to WS.

 Swiss chard in the front, brussel sprouts in the back.