Vegetable Garden

This was our first garden in the house.  We grew tomatoes, yellow squash and zucchini.  It was small but manageable.  Except the watering part.  The first freeze we had living here caused our outside faucet to freeze and burst.  I came home from work to find water gushing everywhere under the deck.  An extension pipe was installed under the deck, from the house to the picket.  The pipe was not wrapped in insulation and we didn't know about it, so the resulting burst.   We had a plumber "fix" it temporarily, just so it wouldn't happen again and we would worry about it in the spring when we needed it. But that didn't happen.  That first spring I watered without a hose, carrying jugs of water to water the plants. This past summer we finally had it properly fixed.  We moved the outside faucet to come right from the house, so it would not do this again. We also had a frost-free faucet installed.

This year we decided to have a raised garden bed.  Using some of the 2x4's from the faux wood cabin wall, Cliff built the bed.  We put a liner down to help keep the weeds down and filled it with top soil and a mix of garden soil.

 This year we have tomatoes, swiss chard, oregano, chives, pepper plants and asparagus.
 

And the swiss chard is the first item we harvested, all grown from seeds!  Yummy!!!