A year ago I determined to dig a garden. A vegetable garden. I wanted to be able to pick tomatoes and cucumbers both at home and at the cabin.
Mid-summer someone gave me a start of rhubarb. Forced to fish or cut bait, I chose a spot up at the top of our yard where the soil is better and where the garden would get the most sun. I dug a small patch which involves removing 6" of thick sod and roots. I planted the rhubarb and grubbed me out a 6' X 6' plot.
Later in the summer and fall, I spent 2 or more days digging out the sod, turning the soil and then covering the area with newspapers in an effort to kill the grass and weeds. By winter I had about a 12 X 12' garden.
This spring I took advantage of early warm days and enlarged the garden by another 6 or 8 feet. I hope to double the garden's size again this summer and fall.
Now my labor looks to be paying off. The tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes are twice the size as our vegetables here at home where our problem is too much shade. If this garden turns out as well as it seems it will, we will grow our vegetables in Mo and leave the Creston beds for the flowers. Shade loving flowers, that is!
Asparagus! We have started a small patch here beside the rhubarb.
And the potatoes never look this good, up home.
