Brian's garden blog.

I have enjoyed gardening since I was a little kid and we've always had a garden in St. David. I'm sure there were times when i complained about hoeing the weeds but I think it made me not hate vegetables like most kids do. I have fond memories of picking squash or eating snap peas straight off the bush, and picking tomatoes with my Grandma Brown. I especially loved bringing the corn in and eating it the day it was picked. I even dug up a part of the lawn in the bachelor pad I lived in when I was single and tried growing a few vegetables there.

After Serena and I were married and bought our house, I played with the idea of starting a garden again. This last November we went to my Grandma Sanders' funeral and in my uncle's comments on her life history he mentioned how my grandpa had a green thumb and had the best chilis around. I barely knew my grandpa, he died when I was really young. I do remember him showing us his greenhouse that he took so much pride in. I thought to myself, gardening is in my blood from both sides of my family maybe I can tap into their skills. Even though I live in the city I guess I can still be Farmer Brown.



This is the raised box I built, it took me a long time because I kept changing my plans I wanted to raise it up off the ground so I could easily pull weeds and water. I also wanted it to be somewhat portable because I couldn't decide where in the yard I wanted it. It was a little tricky because I don't own a saw so I had to have the boards pre-cut at home depot.


I started out with Peas, lettuce, Strawberries, Cucumber, Summer Squash, Tomato, and chilis. the picture above is from March 19, 2011.

I've changed a few things up, it got a little hot for the lettuce so I pulled them out and planted okra and bell peppers in its place. I'm happy with how it's growing so far.








I just recently built a second garden up against the fence-line where I am in the process of planting melons and building a trellis out of conduit pipe and nylon netting so they can grow vertically. We'll see how that works.

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