FINALLY, A Real Vegetable Garden!

We moved to the Garden In The Woods in 2009, and it’s take this long to clear, build, dig, mulch and plant the vegetable garden I planned on.  It’s not quite complete, but the end is in sight!

A variety of things slowed us down:  a broken ankle, health issues, three school age children, and that pesky job that pay for all the lovely plants.  The Chief of Implementation has had to help handle all those things AND work too.

Last fall, the Chief of Implementation built an additional 4 raised beds built for a total of 8 central beds.  This spring, I dug those beds over with my new Miraculous Broadfork from Meadow Creature, and mulched them heavily.  The 6 previously unplanted beds were set up for sheet composting with about a foot of garden debris and a sheet of cardboard under 8 to 12 inches of mulch.  Four of these were seeded with clover as a green mulch to prepare for warm season vegetables.

We also worked together to create 8 side beds.  Four are finished and planted; the other four will need to be raised beds, which the Chief of Implementation will build when the weather cools down.  These side beds contain reseeding or perennial plants and are  NOT rotated.

Here’s a diagram of the beds followed by what’s currently planted in those beds:

Bed	Plants
Rotating Bed A	Bed 2 Spring Planting Cascadia Sugar Snap Peas – short variety, devoured by deer Super Sugar Snap Peas – tall variety, devoured by deer Overseeded with Jericho lettuce Lollo Rosso lettuce Merveille de Quatre Saisons lettuce Pinetree Seeds spinach mix Bright Lights chard Summer Planting Day Neutral Winged beans (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus) – started inside Asparagus pea (Tetragoholobus Purpureus) – started inside, devoured by deer
Rotating Bed B	Bed 3 Spring Planting Clover – poor germination and growth; add inoculant next time Summer Planting Miniature White Cucumber – yummy! Vegetable Spaghetti winter squash Buttercup winter squash Horn of Plenty summer squash Caserta summer squash
Rotating Bed C	Bed 4 Spring Planting Tyfon Holland greens Seedling peas Barefoot Farmer kale Salsify Harris Model parsnips Large Prague? celeriac Neon calendula – direct seeded Rossia, Carioca & Soprano Batavian lettuce Rattail radish Calypso cilantro Summer Planting Malabar spinach New Zealand spinach Cranberry Hibiscus (Hibiscus acetosella) Neon calendula – started inside
Rotating Bed D	Bed 1 Spring Planting Clover – poor germination and growth; add inoculant next time Summer Planting Yellow Currant tomato Red Currant tomato Yellow Brandywine tomato Sugar Plum tomato Bloody Butcher tomato Opalka tomato Red Mini Bell pepper – devoured by deer Yellow Mini bell pepper – devoured by deer hot pepper – purchased transplant hot pepper – purchased transplant hot pepper – purchased transplant hot pepper – purchased transplant marigolds – purchased transplants Lettuce Leaf basil Cinnamon basil – purchased transplant
Stationary Bed A	Spring Planting Mache scallions Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium) Chinese Temple Bells (Moricandia arvensis) Summer Planting Physalis peruviana – devoured by deer
Stationary Bed B	Spring Planting Ladybird poppy (Papaver commutatum) Blue Pimpernel (Anagallis monelli) Ammi majus Borage – direct seeded and started inside Verbena bonariensis – direct seeded and started inside Chamomile (Matricaria recutita) – direct seeded, started inside and purchased Kurrat perennial leeks Summer Planting Physalis peruviana – devoured by deer Prezzemolo Gigante d Italia flat parsley Verbena bonariensis – started inside
Stationary Bed C	– UNDER CONSTRUCTION –
Stationary Bed D	– UNDER CONSTRUCTION –
Stationary Bed E	Spring Planting Miner’s Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata) Cilantro – reseeded late spring & midsummer Crimson Forest bunching onion – no survivors Nigella bucharica – no survivors Summer Planting Physalis pubescens – devoured by deer
Stationary Bed F	Spring Planting Black Swan poppy (Papaver lacinatum) Linaria maroccana ‘Licilia Peach’ Ambrosia (Chenopodium botrys) – no survivors Summer Planting Physalis pubescens – devoured by deer Petra curly parsley
Stationary Bed G	– UNDER CONSTRUCTION –
Stationary Bed H	– UNDER CONSTRUCTION –