(Click on the image for a MUCH larger view!)
I took some time to put the 2011 garden plan on paper. I'm excited at the prospect of all the home grown produce we'll enjoy this year! We are still enjoying canned goods (relish, pickles, jam) I put up last year, and we even have a few loaves of frozen zucchini and patty pan bread in the freezer (not to mention all the frozen shreaded zucchini and patty pan I have left!)
The 2011 garden is going to take a little (ok, a lot) of prep work, though. The 4'x8' raised beds you see on the plan don't actually exist. We need to build them. But we're having a load of topsoil delivered, and putting the beds together can be done over a weekend. Filling them with topsoil will be done using primarily the tractor/bucket once the soil arrives. I will add lots of from-the-farm-poo for extra growing power.
I took a brief tour through photos and posts of last year's garden (you'll have to scroll past this post), and it really got me in the mood for putting this year's garden in place. You'll find last year's garden "map" HERE, on a post about the JUNGLE we had! Hard to imagine it looking like that again this year... let's hope! *grin*
We really do need some rain. The soil out there is dry as can be. Already.
Impressive!!
Posted by: Jennifer K. | March 28, 2011 at 08:34 AM
Now that is a garden!!! Looking forwards to seeing the results!
Posted by: Jessie McLaughlin | March 26, 2011 at 06:04 AM
Looks like a plan to me-you surely do love your 'squashes'! I will just have some salad greens, onions, tomatoes, zucchini and hopefully room for some cucumbers.
Posted by: Bev J. | March 26, 2011 at 05:38 AM
Did I read that correctly? You're planting chocolate?? You just moved up another notch on my list! : )
We have raised beds for our garden - it's the only way to go. Have fun planting and harvesting. Hugs.
Posted by: Mel | March 26, 2011 at 05:19 AM
Yum! How I love tomatoes fresh from the garden! Enjoy!
Posted by: Kathy Martin | March 26, 2011 at 05:06 AM
You "grow" girl! Can't wait to see pics of your project. I would love to have raised beds but can't spring for it yet. It would be much easier on my back. You're lucky to have your own fertilizer too...I have to buy mine and haul it home. Never had patty pan bread. Do you make it like zucc. bread?
Posted by: Celeste | March 26, 2011 at 04:37 AM
I love Shala's interpretation of her garden. Delicious weeds! LOL. I am contemplating on putting a raised garden in
as well. Fresh tomatoes and zuchinni sound
good. Haven't done that for years, but with
the shortage of veggies this year, I think it is time to go back to home grown. BTW,
I have never heard of chocolate peppers?
Posted by: NormaJ | March 25, 2011 at 09:49 PM
Wowwwwwwwwwwww, and I thought my Dad was anal retentive!!!!! lol!!!!!! I guess we call it Obsessive Compulsive now. ;) I'm glad I have a view in my head of what this all will look like when it is grown up. I have big plans for my garden, too! I plan on growing the same weeds I did last year. They are delish!
You go girl!
Posted by: Shala | March 25, 2011 at 06:38 PM
Okay, I checked over this "plan" for this year and took a look at last year's. Garden looked very healthy last year. Loved the Anna "sketch" better than the computer model :)
Posted by: Sherri D. | March 25, 2011 at 06:11 PM
Yummy garden! Lucky you, I didn't see any dang ole Brussel sprouts in the mix! I have a love/hate relationship with them. LOVE, love, love to eat them but man, I hate cleaning them! LOL!
Posted by: Dee in N.H. | March 25, 2011 at 06:06 PM
WOW, it looks like you will be adding lots of space. (And Work!) I will have to draw up our garden and send you a look at it. :) I don't recall ever seeing a grand total on the produce tally last year. Hugs...
Posted by: Carol Dee | March 25, 2011 at 05:07 PM