Wednesday 14 May 2014

my backyard garden

Good morning internets!
Today started off with some light rain, we have been getting perfect weather for starting plants all week it would seem, most of the plants that are planted are doing very well so im going to take this time to give you a overview of my small garden.
At the current time im a renter, i have acess to backyard that will be shared in the future so i cant do to much in the way of making garden beds or modifying the property much. alot of my crops will be grown in containers and pots.

ill start with whats in the ground first! i have 2 small beds i made into the yard because the small areas i chose were rough to start with and would be good locations as for sun.
i got to work and tilled the soil i also added a few bags of compost and soil just to help get conditions right, after the beds were ready i planted around 15 yellow onions, 5 sun flowers, and a few corn plants i started indoors

up above is my first garden bed, so far just the onions a sun flower also a pepper and a corn are growing. i made the surrounding of the garden with rocks i found in the dirt when i was digging around and turning the dirt over, its rained off and on for the past 3 days so it pretty obvious i have some weeding work to do, i planted 2 cantoloupe seeds near the end of the garden, these will just be for fun i didnt really have this garden set up to grow something like that but we will see how it goes!

Above are 2 of my containers the first one has 8 strawberry plants and 3 onions to help keep pests away, rabbits are fairly common in our yard despite our pets so i planted onions almost everywhere to help keep them away. the strawberrys were planted about a week ago as luttle chunks of root.

the second container is one corn plant. the front 2 rows are iceberg lettuce that are just sprouting, and the back left hand corner is red pepper sprout

and here is my second garden bed, in here i planted 8 corn plants which im waiting to sprout. there is also 2 sunflowers, i had a few more but a random hailstorm last week destroyed , so ill be planting more soon.theres also a few onions and in the middle there is a blackberry bush i added.


indoors over the next week ill be starting my giant pumpkins, carrots, tomatoes  and my herb garden, i have 6 differnt types of herb seeds germinating at the moment, i also have a few cuttings i took from a japanese maple im waiting to root. im very interested in bonsai growing and plan on trying a bonsai maple so there will be more posts about that and many more updates of my garden!
id love any tips you can send my way
i hope to make many additions to my garden (:


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