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Neighbor gave me a huge compliment yesterday. Said my garden looked like an Amish garden.

It is looking very nice.


80 feet of taters and onions, 60 mater plants. 300 corn, 10 bell peppers, 3 jalapena, 270 feet of string and lima beans,5 cucumber and a few watermelon for good measure.

All grown from seed with the exception of the 3 jalapenas and of course the taters.

Impressive!

Nice, what is your water source?

I hope to have one like this some day, need the space for corn and Sweet taters.

Very nice. Someone will be doing a lot of canning this year!

Looks like a 4' high fence or so. Does it keep the deer out?

And also looks great!!!!!

It's deer/wildlife netting 7 by 100 foot rolls. It's about 5 foot tall and keeps the deer out. I used tent stakes on the bottom to keep the rabbits out. They are a bigger problem.

Water source is rain and occasionally I must run a sprinkler.

The pantry will be filled this year. Tomatoes, tomato sauce, spagetti sauce, pizza sauce, tomato paste, tomato juice, corn, beans and some taters in the root cellar.

In the late summer I will rotate in some beets, Kale, spinach, more onions, carrots, cabbage and some brussell sprouts. I will can a lot of that too.

It's nice being retired and having the time to do it.

Thanks for the compliments. Lotsa work in it. Lots to come.

If everything goes well this year, I will triple the size next year and set up a stand by the driveway with a sign. And also go to the local farmer's maket with fresh and canned goods, along with my farm fresh eggs.

Here's missouridave's first picture:

Yep, very nice. Too neat, too well organized. I couldn't eat stuff that came out of a garden that is picture-perfect....don't taste the same.
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2800 square feet? Sunil, ain't that about the same size as the shed that you make JHAP and me stay in when we visit?

We live in a community that is 70% Amish, Brettski.



I have to keep up the standards and show them that we can have great looking gardens with a bountiful harvest too.

Besides some of them Amish girls are cute.

With the direction food prices are headed... Very smart idea! My whole back yard isn't as big as that garden. HAHA

we better not catch you usin' a gas powered roto tiller, Mr Yoder

That's why it looks so well Brettski.. I used my 46 Ford 2N to plow it and then disc it. The tiller is to till and cultivate. Although I get quite a bit of time on my knees too.

That depends on the district deacon. Some are progressive, some not very much.

Here in Indiana, it varies from allowing gasoline powered homeowner implements like rototillers, lawn mowers, etc. to not allowing rubber tires on tractors and other things.

I'm seeing more and more solar panels on Amish houses in the Nappanee area.

They are no-tech here. No gas, no rubber, no electric, no phones. Horses and buggies only for family use.

However, for the business some things like gas saws or phones or electric is allowed, but only for the business.

It's strictly separated.

Your garden is very nice! We used to have a huge garden too.

We have adapted and now have a no-bend garden.

Tools = the way we got out of caves.

Very resourceful Dwight, but I'd need about 2,785 more than that. and a whole lot of dirt.



Do you get good results with them. I've heard good things about gardening by the foot.

So far so good with the barrels. This is the first year.

They are half full of glass bottles with several holes drilled around the outside near the bottom for drainage purposes. It doesn't take near as much soil with that approach. The barrels sit on plywood so after mowing around them there is no trimming required.

I did a variation of square foot gardening for 15 years with great success. My variation was four foot square boxes made out of 2 x 10"s with 3 foot walkways between the boxes. There were 12 of the boxes. When they rotted away the area was cleaned up and planted with grass.

Our three favorite fresh from the garden items are tomatoes, green beans and Yukon Gold young taters.

That is brilliant, the boss and I have been discussing building raised beds as you say a no bend garden. Never considered trash cans but that is a great and cheap idea.

Dwight,

My taters are half Pontiac Reds and the other half are Kennebuc Whites. I too love the new potatoes. I don't care for the Yukon Golds. Don't like the texture of them.

Since I got the plastic barrels for free, very cheap.

Actually I haven't known a bad tasting new garden grown potato unless there was a creature living in their.

The Pontiacs and Kennebecs are on the top five list here too.

I have one more week before I grab the salt shaker and start picking tomatoes out of our garden. Good stuff. What variety of maters did you plant? Heirloom seeds?

I put out 25 Big Boys, 25 Early Girls and 10 Roma. I will be going with all heirloom veggies next year.

A SHTF garden?