At least someone had a good meal or two!
This year we made a pretty good size garden.
When we returned from a spring seedling sale... we had bought a bit more than we had space for. Good thing I prepared an area that needed some TLC, the ground there had a couple holes which I filled with small branches, leaves, grass clippings and than dirt. I figured I could use the same idea behind Hügelkultur.
And you know after a couple of weeks it seemed the seedlings loved where were. They adapted really well to our grounds.
Here's what we planted:
Tomato
Zucchini (courgette)
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Red cabbage
Kale
Peppers
Radish
Lettuce
There's enough for quite a few people... but I was thinking we'll need more storage space unless we give it away to our friends and neighbors.
We'll need a root cellar!
We went to my mom's for a few days, so we brought some veggies with us... but when we got home a friend, who is staying with us on the land, told us of her groundhog sightings!
In deed, there had been something making a feast out of the garden!!!!
The broccoli, the cauliflower and the cabbage are gone... I don't think they will mame a come back. Although the broccoli is looking like it could now. The lettuce is totally making it's way back and so is the kale. And for some reason our little furry friend left the peppers alone (maybe he was full by the time he saw them 😁), the tomatoes and the zucchini.
And things are growing... there are a couole little peppers, some of the zucchini flowers are starting to look like they're making fruit and the tomatoes are getting bigger!!!
I have secured the perimeter of the fence, and hole our ground is too rocky for anything to make tunnels now...
Lesson learned 😁. Don't leave parts of the fence above ground.
Be happy and more of happiness will come..
