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Welcome to my Saint Joseph house... Want to see my garden? NO? Come on around back anyway... |
| When I retired in 1987 I built a couple decks and a gazebo around back... First the lower deck, the next one outside my kitchen sliding glass door I installed for the upper one... |
| Then I installed a gas grill on the upper deck and a smoker just like the one I have now... |
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The lower deck was two level... and I built it around a producing cherry tree, seen on the far left... Here looking down on the lower deck from the upper deck... |
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The lower deck didn't get as much use after I built the higher one, but I did pick cherries and sit under the tree there
to pit a bowlful for a pie... This must have been mid-summer, the pepper plants are getting tall and the marigolds have some brown blooms.. |
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But much earlier I had a garden somewhere all over the yard, I added to... or moved them around... Here I had one at the lowest part of the back yard... |
| What do you mean lawnmower? I thought this was something to play with... |
| Well, Frank sure thought it was something to play with... |
| It looks like this patch is coming along nicely... |
| Green bean anyone? |
| Yeah, we got green beans... |
| How about a white radish then? |
| Only one guy a couple years ago at the Farmer's Market had white icicle radishes, big mild ones... They don't ever have them at the Price Chopper, I guess people don't ask for them... |
| Now a patch at the very top of the yard... Was this before or after the lower one? Maybe two at the same time? |
| Look what a little watering and a few weeks growing can do... |
| This is the opposite side of the yard, across from that last patch... |
| Raymond! Get yer dog outta my watermelon patch! |
| What is this? A very large cucumber or a very small watermelon? |
| Knee deep in the sweet corn patch... That stuff was sure good... |
| Then a permanent patch at the sunny South side of the house, later put raised beds in here... and raised my cucumbers here... |
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Later I went to all raised beds... Had about twenty overall... 4 X 8 feet and full of compost, peat and sand, whatever
the crop needed... And they were productive... Some sweet peppers in this one... |
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A little patch of sweet corn alongside the lower deck... Later I grew my eggplants here... |
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Here, just a pumpkin patch wandering around in a corner... Just needed a couple pumpkins for holiday pies... |
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And here, a bed full of beets... Why the fencing over the beds? Well I had cats too, and cats like to dig in soft loam... sooo... |
| And a bed of lettuce, about gone wild here and too bitter to use... |
| And Better Boy tomatoes, later in the season here, would climb to the top of the fence support and start down the other side... |
| Well, that's about it for now... I have about 60 more garden pictures but how many weeds does anyone want to look at anyway? |
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