Cmagnus's A Kitchen garden
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Now that I own a home, instead of an apartment, I have a south facing side yard, as opposed to a north facing, black widow infested, balcony. I’ll have to worry about squirrels and rabbits instead of rats. Wacky. In any case, we built a raised bed, which I plan on filling with herbs and vegetables.
This is also my first experience with gardening in the frigid north. It seems weird to plant in April and May instead of February, and to treat perennials like tomatoes and peppers as annuals, but I suppose I’ll get used to it eventually.
My partner built a garden bench out of leftover bricks from the bed. We’ve enjoyed coming out at night and sitting on it.
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Allium sativum
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Allium sativum
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Allium sativum
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Allium sativum
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Allium sativum
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Salvia officinalis
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Levisticum officinale
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Capsicum annuum
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Mentha spicata
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Allium schoenoprasum
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Brassica oleracea var. acephala
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Capsicum annuum
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Origanum heracleoticum
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Thymus vulgaris
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asparagus Asparagus officinalis |
28 May 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Asparagus (0) |
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Chervil Anthriscus cerefolium |
15 May 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Chervil (3) |
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Cicely Myrrhis odorata |
15 May 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Sweet Cicely (0) |
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creeping thyme Thymus praecox ssp. arcticus |
29 May 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Creeping Thyme (1) |
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egyptian onion Allium cepa var. profilerum |
27 Oct 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Tree Onion (0) |
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Epazote Chenopodium ambrosioides |
15 May 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Epazote (0) |
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Garden Cress Lepidium sativum |
15 May 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Garden Cress (3) |
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Garlic "German Stiffneck" Allium sativum |
15 May 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Garlic (3) |
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Garlic: "Spanish Roja Rocamboles" Allium sativum |
15 May 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Garlic (3) |
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sunroot Helianthus tuberosus |
29 May 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Jerusalem Artichoke (0) |
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winter savory Satureja Montana |
01 Jun 08 | A Kitchen Garden | Winter Savory (0) |
Location
Albany, New York, United States 5
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Katxena wrote:
Your bed is pretty — I like the shape!
Posted on 05 Jun 08 (about 6 months ago)
Cmagnus wrote:
Thanks! We were trying to figure out how to maximize surface area and still reach everything. :)
Posted on 10 Jun 08 (about 5 months ago)
Renemarie wrote:
I love your raised bed. Are those cinderblocks just resting on top of each other, or are they fixed in place somehow? Do you have any problems with them shifting?
You’re right about maximizing the reachable area. I think I might like you mimic your design
Posted on 18 Jun 08 (about 5 months ago)
Cmagnus wrote:
Renemarie, the cinderblocks are just resting on each other. We haven’t had any problems with shifting once we got the dirt in, but if we put too much weight on them while the bed was in progress, they’d shift and we had to pull them back. I have had problems with erosion from the holes in the cinderblock, but that was when we got 3 inches of rain in one day. I think if I did it again, I’d line them with something. On the subject of lining, we covered the bottom with hardware cloth, to keep critters from burrowing up through the bottom.
Posted on 18 Jun 08 (about 5 months ago)
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