We're pretty excited about gardening this year. We saw an amazing local garden last year that was done completely in tires, so we decided to try that. Keith took the sidewalls off some tires, flipped them inside out, and we added nice rich soil to them. The theory is that the tires hold heat better and can extend the short north Idaho growing season by up to a month! I thought having old tires in our backyard would add something classy (not!) to the trailer motif but it doesn't actually look too bad.
Here are some pictures of our garden. Note the ridiculous overachiever of a tomato plant in the first picture. It is now twice as tall as its cage and about six times as tall as the two little tomato plants behind it. The onions in the third picture are looking kinda wimpy, but at least they're there. Their neighbors the peppers have yet to show themselves. Still, I think our first attempt at a garden is going pretty well.
Tomatoes, zucchini, butternut squash, and cucumbers.
Pumpkins, cucumbers, and melons.
Potatoes, onions, and carrots.
And this little addition to the scene is my personal favorite.
Recently we have been torn between the desire to pay off debt and the desire to have our own bit of land to work and cultivate. We want to have rows of fruit trees and heaps of berry bushes, and we've held off from planting any of these things before because, well, we haven't gotten to that longer-term home yet. So we have finally decided to go ahead and start planting these things on this land even though we don't own it. That way we can continue on the road to paying off debt but still enjoy planting stuff. We might not see the long-term fruit of our labors, but we can enjoy the cultivation process! So I don't have pictures of them, but we now also have a few cherry trees in the ground as well as some raspberry and blueberry bushes.
I'm really appreciating living in a yard with some mature plants in it. I don't think we have before. I have always wanted a garden with lots of staggered perennials and beautiful vines and big trees and that sort of thing. The yard where we live now isn't large, but there are a few big trees around it, and a lovely flurry of vines on our chain link fence, and another rose bush to keep mine company. We've enjoyed a succession of tulips and some other flowers this spring, and we're now into orange daylillies, my favorite! It is so fun for me to be able to take Rilla around our yard to see different colors and feel different textures of the modest little mixture of plants here. Definitely a blessing.
One more picture of our sweet girl.
Comments (9)
AWW! I love hearing about gardens! Yours is looking fantastic, way to go! Have you had baby potatoes from it yet? (do you hill them out in Idaho?). My Valley garden is massive but the ranch one is the saddest one on record (zone 1 :( )
Anyways. Great garden and great baby :)
I'm with you on being torn between paying off debt and owning your own property...we've been getting pretty restless about that, so we've upped our debt repayments by quite a lot in hopes of making one final hard sprint to the finish line so we can get our own property sooner. It's been going pretty well so far, so hopefully we can keep it up. Some days it's really wearying, though. Oh well...I'm looking forward to the satisfaction of seeing that big zero on the student loan balance.
The garden is looking great! I'm so proud of you two! ;)
those are some wonderful photographs! you're right, the tires don't look all that bad!
does rilla have a sounders fc jersey yet? :) cute photos!
These are great-looking plants. Isn't gardening so much fun? I love getting to see the fruits (literally) of my labor not long after all that labor goes into it. Enjoy! :)
That is such a good idea! I might attempt that next year cuz I hate weeding and I think it would cut down on it. And they don't look bad at all, once the plants get big enough. I planted peppers, too, and haven't seen anything yet. We've got peas that are showing themselves and basil but our carrots and potatoes are refusing to grow. We have two kinds of lettuce and I think they'll make a good run of it. These last few days have been hot and then rainy/stormy and things have just took off (I'm so glad). I can't wait to reap the benefits of my labour!
Rilla is so sweet, by the way!! I love the pics
YOur garden looks great! Did you start all those veggies from seeds?
@KatherineJaneGonzales - Yes, except for the tomatoes.
Your garden looks great!