Garden Planting!
I’ve finally finished assembly of my raised garden beg for this year’s planting. The bed is 7′ by 3′4″. I decided to go with untreated pine, which will rot away, but I’m not a big fan of the pressure treated wood. With all of that being said, I picked up 15 bags of soil from Pike’s (10 bags of Garden Soil, 2 bags of Mushroom Compost, and 3 bags of Soil Amendment). Our soil here is heavily compacted red clay, with numerous rocks. It took a long time to clear out all of the rocks from the plot, which was painful to do.
I planted several sets of onions, garlic, and shallots last week. I planted approximately 45 each of yellow, white, and red onions in plastic containers with drain holes drilled in them. Half of the onions will be harvested as green onions to free up space for the other onions to get moderately large. I expect that the garlic will yield about 30 cloves. I really have no idea about the shallots, I just threw them in the ground and am hoping for the best.
In the raised garden bed, we planted:
- 2 better boy tomato plants
- 2 husky red cherry tomato plants
- 1 mortgage lifter tomato plant (from started seed)
- 1 early girl tomato plant (from started seed)
- 7 jalapeno peppers
- 4 cayenne peppers
- 3 random peppers (either cayenne, jalapeno, habanero, or anaheim)
- 2 raspberry starts (no idea about these…)
- 1 strawberry plant (everbearing)
- a row of soybeans
- two rows of carrots
- a bunch of california wonder peppers
- a bunch of mini bell peppers
- a purple basil I started from a clipping from our AeroGarden
- 1 rosemary plant
Pictures:
The raised garden bed from the deck
A closeup of the bed & containers
A side view of the garden
A closeup of one of the onion containers