Looking back over the past few months I realize that MyChicagoGarden hasn’t posted anything about gardens. How can that be?!
Anyway….here’s what I can tell you. We have a garden. It’s very small. At least by my measurements. I have 3 cabbage plants (on the right in the picture) that are growing like gang busters. I have a $5 bounty out on any cabbage white butterfly my girls can catch and kill. There are two of those blighters hanging around that are giving the girls and myself fits. Behind the cabbage are 2 brussel sprouts and behind them is a couple rows of onions and a watermelon plant. In front of the cabbage where 2 broccoli plants but I harvested them already and the wife had them for lunch/snack last week.
In front on the left is a trellis for the 1 zucchini and 1 cucumber. Left of them is the spinach field (had some for dinner last night). Left of the spinach is a couple rows of carrots. And then in an L shape on the left is an inter-planting of bush beans and peas.
And then obviously in the back is the corn. What you can’t see is the butternut squash planted in the middle and the bush beans and pole beans inter-planted in the model of the “three sisters”. The pole beans have curled themselves around the corn and are reaching to the sky with long tendrils.
That’s all I can pack into my 3 little 6-foot by 3-foot raised beds. I’m looking forward to when I can have a larger garden and the free time to work in it.
One last thing…
Do you have a garden or acreage on at least 2 acres of land within 20 miles of downtown Wheaton, IL? Interested in having bees on your property? I need to find a permanent home for my bees. You’ll receive a share of the honey! Drop me an email at tyler@mychicagogarden.com
Your garden is looking amazing! Our brocolli is not faring too well, bugs keep eating it.
I have a very small garden also, much smaller than yours, but I do grow a few veggies. The tomatoes are huge this year and I am hoping they don’t overtake everything else.
Eileen