We live in a condo and last year I missed my garden a lot. My parents have one so we still got veggies when we would drive their, but I missed having in at home. This year we bought planter boxes and have a few pepper plants, onions, cherry tomatoes, and regular tomatoes planted. Today their is a tomato!!
Our mom lives about a block away, and that's where we get all of our vegetables. We haven't been to the vegetable isle in years.
We have a small garden in our side yard that's just big enough for us. Some potatoes, tomatoes, lettuce, and various herbs to round it all off.
We have a container garden, tomatoes mostly. My mom & dad, at 73 and 77, still have a garden that is HUGE, tomatoes, peppers, radishes, cucumbers, beans, muskmelons, 10 rows of sweet corn, beets, potatoes. She canned 117 pints of green beans and 50 quarts of tomatoes last year. She is looking forward to about the same numbers this year. Needless to say they don't buy much out of the vegetable aisle either. They also have 2 apple trees and some plum bushes, that they freeze fruit off of. Mom also found time to work with the Census this year.
We have a HUGE garden. I love it, I hate to weed it. Most times I just go out and roto-till in between the rows of vegetables. I'm glad you were able to put a garden in at your folks. Nothing beats fresh veggies from the garden.
We use a lot of grass clipping for mulch, it also adds to the soil for next year. Gives my Dad a reason to get his old John Deere and plow out in the spring. I took a picture of mom beside the tomato plants yesterday, she is 5'5'' and the plants are the same height as her. She picked one yesterday that measured 14" around. The tomato plants are just loaded with ripening tomatoes, we will soon be over run with several different varieties. But mom said she had time to can them so that is what she will be doing in the next couple of weeks. I am glad she can still do that and that she enjoys it.
I wish we didn't have such a big garden. My husband and I are both getting too old to be bothered with it. It's such a lot of work cutting the grass, trimming the hedges and managing the plum and apple trees, though I do enjoy the fruit!
That's fantastic, Jenlee. It's much better than having no garden at all. I assume you grow the vegetables organically, which is great. Is it possible to grow the vegetables using verticulture system?
Miss my garden I miss having a garden. Every since we moved I have not had a chance to get one going. I do hope next year will be the year I get back to it.
Gardens are a lot of work! They are a lot of fun and they produce a lot of great food that really saves us a ton of money. We also use grass clippings to keep the weeds down in the garden. It doesn't always work.
I agree gardens are a lot of work, but well worth it! I never would have thought of doing planter boxes as I too live in a condo. Maybe next year I will try that! Also I have never heard of the Verticulture until I looked it up. Maybe I will try that now and hope my cat leaves it alone.
