We put our vegetable garden to rest for the winter. You would think there is nothing to do in the garden at this time, but my wife and I are very active planning for next spring. We are looking through seed catalogs every day and trying to plan our layout. If the winter is good to us we are planning to purchase a greenhouse so we can start our growing season earlier than spring. We will keep you updated on the progress of this project.
This was our third year planting a garden. The first year we had six inch raised beds which worked out well, but they were spaced to far apart. We had a large path between each bed which took up a lot of valuable planting space. We had only four 3x10 ft. beds.
On the second year we mounded the dirt to a higher level than the walking paths. It didn't work out to well for us. By the end of the season the lines between the planting area and the paths were blurred. And it was hard to weed and water. So this year we switched back to raised beds that are 16" tall, this should make it easier to weed and maintain. We made them wider and we still fit two more beds than we had before.
I constructed the beds out of a few white oak logs that we milled right here on our property. We run a few small businesses her, one being a saw mill. I milled the boards to 2" thick x 16" wide x 10 feet long. I figure we should get about ten years out of these beds.
We added an insectory for this spring. Once this comes to bloom I will post some photos. There is a method to our madness. We plan on starting our first bee hive this spring, and the insectory should draw the bees to the vegetable garden. The extra pollinators should give us a better yeild from our garden.
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