The River Road garden is a family effort!
This raised bed vegetable garden plan reflects almost a decade of gardening experience. Take a look at the River Road garden layout and photos鈥攁nd get some great ideas!
River Road Garden Story
The credit for our vegetable garden plan goes to my wife (the engineer), who wanted the geometric designs, and her brother, who first built the structures with 6鈥 wood (while I was away working!). I鈥檝e since replaced most of the structures with 12鈥 wood. We鈥檝e been gardening for about seven to ten years.
- Our permanent or semi-permanent crops include raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries.
- Annual plants (rotated and not grown every year) have included muskmelon, cucumbers, peppers, zucchini, acorn and winter squash, okra, beans, potatoes, cilantro, tomatoes, brussels sprouts, and broccoli.
- We also grow various herbs and flowers for butterflies and bees.
No pesticides or herbicides are used, but I have used some granular fertilizers that are probably not classified as organic. And we recently started using more chicken manure and worm castings. I have a mulch bin, but it鈥檚 much too small for my needs.
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The garden is lots of work from spring to fall. I almost hate to take 鈥渓ong鈥 holidays. Even though someone will water, I leave it in great shape and return to chaos. Raspberries take the most maintenance - by a long shot!
鈥揃谤耻肠别&苍产蝉辫;奥.
River Road Vegetable Garden Plan
(Bowling Green, Ohio)
See the Results! The Garden Photos
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Catherine Boeckmann
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