We have a little vegetable garden area in front of the house. We don’t get a lot of sun due to the surrounding structures, but in the afternoon, it gets serious solar energy in the months of July and early August.
Years ago we took apart some of the old back deck and some of the front porch and created raised beds. We’ve tried to improve the soil over the years but the nearby trees have really gotten the better of it all. Insidious roots!
So on the raised beds, we do container gardening.
This year we have some tomatoes and some cucumbers:
There are some “walking Egyptian onions” which create onion sets at the tops of their leaves and then they fall over, and start growing from the set where they’ve landed. So they sort of “walk” around. Ours have propagated a bit, but it’s a tough site.
You can also see some of our herbs – we have lavender, various mints, and rosemary. I think the large star-shaped thing is evening primrose, just starting out. And you can see some marigolds that don’t much like the soil.
Then (below) we have the west bed, and it really looks like it needs some carpentry. Meanwhile, there are cucumbers and basil, and then a lot of tomatoes in containers up at the front fencerow. Usually we get a lot of cherry tomatoes out of the one little corner of the yard which gets more than 4 hours of sun per day!
There are some Jerusalem artichokes in the left side of this pic, and they are growing quite well. Hope we can remember to pull them up so we can cook them this year!
