Local Foods: Organic Deck Garden update (7-23-06) - before and afters
Published by nika on Sunday, July 23, 2006 at 12:48 PM.

Here is the latest update on our organic deck garden here in central Massachusetts. You may remember that this all got a very late start but we do what we can!
For those of you not familiar with earlier posts about this garden, here is a list of them:
Local foods - Organic deck garden 2006
Hail-recovery and happy sunshine
Why do I not just plant in the ground? I have Rambo rodentia and rabbits who would eat everything up in a flash if I gardened in the ground (I have been there once before, I don't need that aggravation).
Deck garden at the beginning (6-8-06):

Deck garden today (7-23-06):

Successional Lettuce planting then:

Successional Lettuce planting now:




Corn transplanted from the lettuce bed to the side of the house:

Corn, beans, cucumbers, squash, etc today:


Tomato then:

Tomatoes now:



Radishes then:

Radishes now (ready to pick):

Carrots in the beginning:

Carrots now:

Eggplant then:

Eggplants now:

Bell Pepper then:

Bell Pepper now:


Pole beans then:

Pole beans now:

Jalapenos then:

Jalapenos now:

For those of you not familiar with earlier posts about this garden, here is a list of them:
Local foods - Organic deck garden 2006
Hail-recovery and happy sunshine
Why do I not just plant in the ground? I have Rambo rodentia and rabbits who would eat everything up in a flash if I gardened in the ground (I have been there once before, I don't need that aggravation).
Deck garden at the beginning (6-8-06):

Deck garden today (7-23-06):

Successional Lettuce planting then:

Successional Lettuce planting now:




Corn transplanted from the lettuce bed to the side of the house:

Corn, beans, cucumbers, squash, etc today:


Tomato then:

Tomatoes now:



Radishes then:

Radishes now (ready to pick):

Carrots in the beginning:

Carrots now:

Eggplant then:

Eggplants now:

Bell Pepper then:

Bell Pepper now:


Pole beans then:

Pole beans now:

Jalapenos then:

Jalapenos now:

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