I got motivated and DIY’d a backyard garden area to grow vegetables as an activity with my daughter.
Shoutout to Funke’s in Cincinnati which had an amazing selection of 300+ tomato varieties along with hundreds of peppers and other vegetables.
The large beds are 4.5’L x 3’W x 15”H, and the smaller beds are 1.5’W. I’m interested to hear what you guys think about the spacing, and how many plant I could fit in this space next year.
From Right to Left I have:
Herbs –
Greek Oregano
Rosemary (Barbecue)
Chives
Lemon Thyme
Basil (Lettuce Leaf)
Cilantro (Leisure)
Veggies –
Beet (Touchstone Golden)
Leek (American Flag)
Cucumber (Spacemaster)
Squash (Caserta Zuccini)
Squash (Delicata)
Broccoli (Premium Crop)
Tomatoes –
Lillians Yellow
Candyland Red
Chadwick Cherry
Pear Yellow
Black Cherry
Believe It Or Not
Peppers –
Aleppo
Romanian Sweet
Sweet Cherry
Purple Beauty
Super Heavyweight
Jalapeno
by K3nnyP0w3rs
5 Comments
Spacing looks good for the first go at things, you will learn much by watching this garden. Don’t be sad if you lose a couple things, just keep going 🙂
You’ve planted very densely for your bed sizes and will probably need to make some decisions about things to cull as these plants grow. A few things to bear in mind —
1) I would move the oregano out of the bed and to a pot ASAP. Oregano throws out runners and can pretty quickly consume the entire square footage of this small bed.
2) Cilantro and broccoli are both spring/fall crops. Those aren’t going to make it to maturity before they bolt under heat stress with the onset of summer. These are crops that you put out early, before your last frost, so that they can size up before the heat arrives. Let them go for now so that you can learn what they look like when bolting, but don’t expect much of a harvest from them.
3) American Flag is one of the slowest leeks. Leek varieties were developed with staggered maturity dates so that you can plant a bunch of varieties all at once in the spring and then have staggered harvests from summer through early winter. American Flag is a late fall / early winter variety that usually takes a good 130 days, so be patient with that one.
4) Your veggie bed is especially packed because of the two squashes. Your zucchini will produce a very large bush structure and the delicata will produce long vines. Typically, you want to allocate a 2’x2′ space for a squash, and to expect to train vines out of the bed and on the ground. Again, think about what you want to prioritize here.
5) You have a lot of indeterminate tomatoes. Given the tight planting, you will need to prune these to a single leader/stem and trellis them using stakes or another structure to keep them vertical.
Looks great!
Looks great!
My gf and I are building a garden for the first time, and im almost ready to build a temporary (but solid) fence structure, and i like what you did for yours. can you tell me a little bit about the wire mesh that you bought? is there a name for that and/or where you got it? thanks for the inspiration