ablacadabla's My 1st real Garden garden

Garden Type: Vegetable | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Combination I'm Organic!

So I wanted to produce some of my own food as part of my goal to consume local foods. I also want to take that first step to becomming more sustainable. We don’t have much space at all where we live now… so we’re doing a raised bed garden. Just one this year to start out with & see how it goes… hopefully we can add another one next year.

Plantings

Malabar Spinach

Basella alba

Transplanted on 06 Jun 08 I was surprised to see this at the farmer's mar...
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Eggplant

Solanum melongena

Transplanted on 06 Jun 08 I'm not the biggest fan of eggplant but decided...
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Sweet Potato

Ipomoea batatas

Transplanted on 06 Jun 08 I was excited to see the sweet potato slips at ...
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Sun Sugar Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

Transplanted on 06 Jun 08 I had no idea what this kind of tomato was, but...
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Fooled You Pepper

Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Longum Group)

Transplanted on 06 Jun 08 I thought this would be good to make salsas out...
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Tommy Toe Tomato

Solanum lycopersicum

Transplanted on 06 Jun 08 Wasn't sure what type of tomato this was but li...
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Ivory Bell Pepper

Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Grossum Group)

Transplanted on 06 Jun 08
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Chocolate Bell Pepper

Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Grossum Group)

Transplanted on 06 Jun 08
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Comments

Katxena wrote:
Cool! I started my first real garden this year too, for similar reasons. Well, mostly I wanted home grown tomatoes, but I also want to more self-sufficient. :) Welcome to MyFolia!

Posted on 09 Jun 08 (about 1 years ago)