Faithful readers of this blog (if there are any left) may have wondered why the postings have fallen off recently. The pic shows why: We’ve been putting in a garden, a major home-improvement project (for us) that took nearly all our spare time for weeks.
The Garden
We’ve now planted several varieties of tomatoes, spicy peppers and eggplants, as well as strawberries, chard, onions and even a couple of artichokes. It’s all a big experiment for us because we’ve never tried to grow vegetables in a climate like Ohio’s, where the growing season is relatively short yet extremely hot, and there are a lot of bugs.
It’s the biggest vegetable garden we’ve ever had, and we had the fence built to keep out critters such as deer and rabbits. We built the boxes for the raised beds ourselves, and also assembled and put up the trellis. As with all the pix on this blog, you can click on it to enlarge it.
I’ll post some updates throughout the summer as we find out how things are doing.
Posted by Gordon 
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