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ShaneandRuth

ShaneandRuth's Front Yard Organic Raised Bed garden

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

This is our first attempt at vegetable gardening. We chose our front yard because it is a south-facing yard with full sunlight. The back yard, which will eventually become garden space, too, gets a little more shade because of trees and shadows cast by the house. Our soil is of a pretty low quality (mostly clay with only a little topsoil), so we opted to build a modified version of a “lasagna garden” (also known as “sheet mulching”). We built six raised beds for the front yard (12′×4′ each) and “built” the soil from newspaper, straw, mulch, and compost. It’s our first year with it and we’re still learning some things as we go, but it has been a lot of fun, too. If you want to get to know your neighbors, turning your front yard into a vegetable garden is a good way to get folks to walk over and strike up a conversation. We are also growing some plants in containers on our front porch and have started a small area for berry bushes in our back yard.**

Photos

Plantings

  • Radish 'Champion'

    Radish 'Champion'

    Raphanus sativus

    Sown on 29 Jun 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Unhappy

  • Radish 'Champion'

    Radish 'Champion'

    Raphanus sativus

    Sown on 23 May 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Unhappy

  • Radish 'Easter Egg Blend'

    Radish 'Easter Egg Blend'

    Raphanus sativus

    Sown on 23 May 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Unhappy

  • Tomato 'Cherokee Purple'

    Tomato 'Cherokee Purple'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 21 May 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Cucumber 'Burpless'

    Cucumber 'Burpless'

    Cucumis sativus

    Transplanted on 20 May 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Dill

    Dill

    Anethum graveolens

    Transplanted on 02 May 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Sweet Pepper 'California Wonder'

    Sweet Pepper 'California Wonder'

    Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Grossum Group)

    Transplanted on 01 May 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Winter Squash 'Waltham butternut'

    Winter Squash 'Waltham butternut'

    Cucurbita moschata

    Sown on 01 May 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Common Bean 'Blue Coco'

    Common Bean 'Blue Coco'

    Sown on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Common Bean 'Blue Lake'

    Common Bean 'Blue Lake'

    Phaseolus vulgaris

    Sown on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Common Bean 'Carroll's Butterbean'

    Common Bean 'Carroll's Butterbean'

    Sown on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Common Bean 'Rattlesnake Crowder'

    Common Bean 'Rattlesnake Crowder'

    Phaseolus vulgaris

    Sown on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Eggplant 'Fairy Tale'

    Eggplant 'Fairy Tale'

    Solanum melongena

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Eggplant 'Ichiban'

    Eggplant 'Ichiban'

    Solanum melongena

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Spearmint 'Kentucky Colonel'

    Spearmint 'Kentucky Colonel'

    Mentha spicata

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Melon 'Eden's Gem Melon'

    Melon 'Eden's Gem Melon'

    Cucumis melo

    Sown on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Sweet Pepper 'Sweet Banana'

    Sweet Pepper 'Sweet Banana'

    Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Grossum Group)

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Chili Pepper

    Chili Pepper

    Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Longum Group)

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Sweet Pepper 'Chocolate Beauty'

    Sweet Pepper 'Chocolate Beauty'

    Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Grossum Group)

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Unhappy

  • Chili Pepper 'Jalapeno'

    Chili Pepper 'Jalapeno'

    Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Longum Group)

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Sweet Pepper 'Red Beauty'

    Sweet Pepper 'Red Beauty'

    Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Grossum Group)

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Neutral

  • rosemary

    rosemary

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Yellow Crookneck Squash 'Eary Prolific Straightneck'

    Yellow Crookneck Squash 'Eary Prolific Straightneck'

    Cucurbita pepo

    Sown on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Tomato 'Pineapple'

    Tomato 'Pineapple'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Tomato 'Principe Borghese'

    Tomato 'Principe Borghese'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Tomato 'riesentraube'

    Tomato 'riesentraube'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 29 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Tomato 'Black Russian'

    Tomato 'Black Russian'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 25 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Tomato 'Brandywine'

    Tomato 'Brandywine'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 25 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Tomato 'Green Zebra'

    Tomato 'Green Zebra'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 25 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 1 comments
    • Happy

  • Tomato 'Lemon Boy'

    Tomato 'Lemon Boy'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 25 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Tomato 'Mountain Pride'

    Tomato 'Mountain Pride'

    Transplanted on 25 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Tomato 'Opalka'

    Tomato 'Opalka'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 25 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Tomato 'Sweet Million'

    Tomato 'Sweet Million'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 25 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Cabbage

    Cabbage

    Brassica oleracea (Capitata Group)

    Sown on 20 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Happy

  • Flat-Leaf Parsley 'Flat Leaf'

    Flat-Leaf Parsley 'Flat Leaf'

    Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum

    Transplanted on 20 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • Common Bean 'Red Ribbon'

    Common Bean 'Red Ribbon'

    Sown on 19 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Green Onion 'Green'

    Green Onion 'Green'

    Allium fistulosum

    Transplanted on 19 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Unhappy

  • Onion

    Onion

    Allium cepa var. cepa

    Transplanted on 19 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Unhappy

  • Sweet Pepper 'California Wonder'

    Sweet Pepper 'California Wonder'

    Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Grossum Group)

    Transplanted on 19 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Tomato 'Early Girl'

    Tomato 'Early Girl'

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Transplanted on 19 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments
    • Very Happy

  • Coriander

    Coriander

    Coriandrum sativum

    Sown on 03 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

  • basil

    basil

    Transplanted on 03 Apr 08

    • 1 journals
    • 0 faves
    • 0 comments

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Knoxville, Tennessee

United States United States 6b

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