laurieann's Veggie Bed #1 garden
Garden Type: Raised Bed | Sun: Partial Sun | Soil: Loam | Established: 2009 | Organic
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4 × 12 raised bed constructed of fir treated with linseed oil. It stands 8" high, but I dug the soil down 10" – 12" and added organic garden mix soil amended with peat moss and dolomite lime. During the growing season I use a homemade organic fertilizer (Steve Solomon’s recipe) and mulch with my own compost. We compost our food scraps and yardwaste. We have compost bins and worm bins.
I salvaged some wire fencing from another area of the property and tacked it from the back of the bed up to the deck above. It’s probably about 10’ or so high. I trellis my peas and cucumbers on it. I have cut out the wire in places oin the backside so I can reach the soil as well as harvest the veggies.
For a cloche, my husband drilled holes into the top of the bed that we fit pvc pipe into on each side and then we can clamp poly or bird netting as needed to turn for which I use large metal binder clips.
The pic shows it with the poly cloche on – keeping the soil warm and the heavy rains out until my peas have a chance to sprout.
2nd & 3rd pics from 8/5/2010
An outdoor organic garden located in Bainbridge Island, WA, United States, laurieann's Veggie Bed #1 garden currently contains 7 plants.
This is a Raised Bed garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 7b. It has mainly Loam soil and receives Partial Sun light.Photos
Plantings
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Beans 'Tiger's Eye' Day 361
Phaseolus vulgaris
Sown on 26 May 12 sowed a 6 ft row on the left
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Beans 'California Blackeye' Day 361
Phaseolus vulgaris
Sown on 26 May 12 sowed a 6 ft row on the right side of bed
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Carrot 'Scarlet Nantes' Day 361
Daucus carota subsp. sativus
Sown on 26 May 12 planted the rest of seed packet on either side ...
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Calendula 'Flashback' Day 399
Calendula
Sown on 18 Apr 12 Sowed the packet from LouiseM into the left fro...
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Pisum sativum
Sown on 06 Apr 12 A couple of weeks ago I sowed the back row of v...
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Cucurbita pepo var. cylindrica
Sown on 08 Mar 12 2" soil blocks
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Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 08 Mar 12 2" soil blocks
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