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marko's Front Yard Vegetable garden

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

I probably got the idea for this garden from hearing the stories about the “Victory Gardens” planted during World War II. Apparently, Americans used whatever space they had available to grow vegetables – even if it was a front yard or empty lot.

This is also the first garden I planted, so everything is an experiment. I want to find out what grows well in this climate and learn how to produce my own vegetables. It’s all done on the cheap too. Nearly everything was grown from seed, and much of the lumber was scrap wood. I did cheat a bit and purchased about two cubic yards of topsoil from a local landscape supply.

This garden is made up of a series of raised beds, wine barrel half’s, and some plastic four gallon planters I salvaged. All the beds are quite shallow, never exceeding six inches.

Despite the cobbled together nature of the garden, the front lawn actually looks much better than it used to.

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Plantings

  • You can never have too much Basil Day 182

    You can never have too much Basil

    Ocimum basilicum

    Sown on 26 May 09 Over the next week I started to clear out the l...

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  • Markemore Cucumber Day 193

    Markemore Cucumber

    Cucumis sativus

    Sown on 15 May 09 Planted from seed in new topsoil from the local...

    • 1 journals
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  • Sierra Gold Cantaloupe Day 195

    Sierra Gold Cantaloupe

    Cucumis melo

    Sown on 13 May 09 Planted by the sidewalk. Hopefully people in th...

    • 2 journals
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  • Sugar Crunch Hybrid Cucumber Day 241

    Sugar Crunch Hybrid Cucumber

    Cucumis sativus

    Sown on 28 Mar 09 Started from seeds.

    • 2 journals
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  • Yellow Tomatoes from last year Day 241

    Yellow Tomatoes from last year

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Sown on 28 Mar 09 Last year my bank gave me a tomato plant eventu...

    • 3 journals
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  • "Ace 55" Tomatores Day 241

    "Ace 55" Tomatores

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Sown on 28 Mar 09 These seeds were from 2008, but they should sti...

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  • Yellow Pear Tomato Day 245

    Yellow Pear Tomato

    Solanum lycopersicum

    Sown on 24 Mar 09 Planted from seed in an oak wine barrel half.

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  • Sweet Banana Pepper Day 245

    Sweet Banana Pepper

    Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Longum Group)

    Sown on 24 Mar 09 Planted from seed

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  • Sweet Basil Day 245

    Sweet Basil

    Ocimum basilicum

    Sown on 24 Mar 09 Planted from seed in that long homebuild planter.

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  • Fennel Day 245

    Fennel

    Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum

    Sown on 24 Mar 09 planted from seed next to the corn salad.

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  • Walla Walla Onions Day 245

    Walla Walla Onions

    Allium cepa var. cepa

    Sown on 24 Mar 09 Planted from seed

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  • Sweet Italian Basil Day 247

    Sweet Italian Basil

    Ocimum basilicum

    Sown on 22 Mar 09 Planted from seed in a oak barrel half. Ran out...

    • 2 journals
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  • Parsley (probably Italian)

    Parsley (probably Italian)

    Petroselinum crispum var. neapolitanum

    Sown on 14 Jul 08 Hopefully this is ITALIAN parsley, but seed pac...

    • 5 journals
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