A lot of folks here had trouble due to the weather, I'll use that excuse too.
About the only things we harvested last season were jalapenos, a couple of small watermellon, andsome roma tomatoes. Most of the tomatoes didn't fruit until September.
By October we had hundreds but the frost came and killed them off.
Anyway, decided to abandon the community garden for a couple of reasons, the least of which is our crops "disappearing". We've had a water problem in our backyard for years and decided to resolve that.
Here's what we did over the last 4 weekends:
- Installed French drains around the perimeter
- Used the soil from the trenches to fill in low spots
- Laid sod on half the yard
- Installed 4 raised garden beds on the other half
- Laid Alabama Sunset gravel around the beds
- Mulched the flower gardens
- Started several vegetable varieties from seed and transplanted into the beds
My only concern at this point is the limited sunlight in the yard due to neighboring trees.
Hopefully we will have a better harvest than last season.
Worst case, our water problems are solved and the yard looks much nicer.
We went over budget of course, total cost around $2,200.
Pics below, I'll have pics of the garden beds later this week.
Happy Gardening!
