Pole Beans....a new approach and system for us!

Here is a picture of the new Pole Bean garden that we installed and planted.  We are trying pole beans for the first time, we usually plant bush beans.  I am trying to do more vertical planting within the context of my square foot garden.  We still have cucumbers, tomatoes, 4 more kinds of lettuce and 4 kinds of peppers to plant.  

Keep yours eyes open to see what comes next!!

Jim and Peter fixing the posts that they were putting in along with hanging the chicken wire for the beans to grow up!

Getting the Big garden ready!

Here is Jim getting the garden tilled so that we can plan and plant the cops for the season

 

Jim continued to till the garden until all the peat moss chicken poop was blended into the soil.  While sifting through the soil, I saw lots and lots of worms....some of my students would love to come find some of the big fat worms I saw today!

Bing on the Fresh Veggies!

2010 Garden

Jim and I began our garden quest by planting 110 onion bulbs and six head lettuce plants in the 4 x 4 stand alone garden.  We added a plastic fence so that the wild rabbits , chickens and dogs would stay out of the plants.  It doesn't seem to matter what I plant, the chickens love to eat it all....flowers, veggies, weeds...you name it, they eat it!

It's Spring and We want to run around!

Don't you just love spring? What about all the new life that is starting to grow in the gardens? I can tell you that this has been an incredible weekend here in New Hampshire. The weather was so nice 60's with a slight breeze and sun shining. So here I decided to take a pictue of some of my girls in their coop. While working in the garden, theykept running back and forth talking to each other. Any time I got close to the coop, Mr Peeper started crowing!