Readers share garden pictures
After sharing my own garden pictures earlier this week, I asked readers to send pictures of their own gardening efforts. Two readers, Michelle and Kenn, came through with some images I want to show off here. In their own words…
Kenn: Just sent a pic of (most) of my garden, couldn’t get the potatoes or onions in the pic. So far have been harvesting squash, zucchini, new red potatoes, onions, and one cucumber, one green pepper, and one grape tomato.
Michelle: I live in a townhouse and we have a tiny backyard, so I have crammed everything I can in. The first picture has my tomatoes and Brussels sprouts. I keep my tomatoes pretty thin, otherwise they’ll take over the whole space. My Brussels are looking scraggily after an attack by some big fat green caterpillars, that I ended up picking off by hand. In the other picture is my strawberries (in the front on the ground), corn, and a rosemary bush. My garden is so small that I obviously don’t live off of it, but I like to learn things about different plants when I grow them. I have a reference book, “The New Self Sufficient Gardener” by John Seymour that I check about every five minutes in the summer.
Anyone else want to show off their garden? E-mail those pics to lindsey.nair@roanoke.com.
Kenn's garden
Michelle's tomatoes and Brussels sprouts
Michelle's corn, strawberries and rosemary
June 17, 2010 - 10:18 AM
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Those are some good looking garden shots. If you request pictures again next year, hopefully we’ll have a garden that I can take a few pictures of, and hopefully I can have as much success with a vegetable garden in the ground as I’ve had growing herbs in pots and weeds mixed with my shrubs. I have mutant thistle, I can’t get rid of it!
This was my first time growing corn – I learned after I planted this year that you’re not supposed to do just one straight row, so I added in another row in front. You can’t see it well in the pictures but it’s coming up.
You have to watch those strawberries – they are taking over with the little runners!
Kenn, looking at the pic of your garden, I’ve got a question. It looks like you dressed it with something (mulch, perhaps?) Maybe I am wrong, and it is just tilled soil. I was just wondering if you used anything like that on it.
Hi abdnva,
No mulch, just tilled soil, I’m luck to have a garden in an area where the soil tills so easily, since my garden is plagued with morning glories, I have to till it fairly often to keep them under control.