Just Getting Going

Today, Audrey and I made a trip to Nampa to visit the Jenkins Clan, and see how they have been able to use their resources and abilities to have this AMAZING garden. Not only are they great gardeners, but wonderful and friendly people. They want to help empower others to enjoy self reliance.

August

This month we canned and froze mostly beans, pickles, and corn. We learned how to use a pressure cooker so we also did some potatoes
More later

2010 Garden

After last years success, we decided that we needed to expand our capability again, so we added a few more feet both directions. Now we are about 150 x 200. Sometimes I think that I must be completely off my rocker to do such a thing, but everyone seems to think it's a good thing.
Again we had a very bountiful harvest as we added pickling cucumbers and a crazy variety of squash and melons. We also learned a great deal about growing beans. I finally was able to raise a crop of green beans with out killing them just as they come up out of the ground.

2009 Tomatos and Peppers

We had a bountiful harvest on our tomato's and peppers. We grew several varities of tomato's and peppers, most of which went into salsa and tomato juice. As I recall we did over 130 jars of salsa and close to 100 jars of juice.

2009 Season

When we moved into our home in 2009, one of the first things we did was get a piece of ground ready for our garden. We took a patch of sagebrush and weeds that was about 100 x 100 and starting preparing for the upcoming growing season.

We began by planting some strawberries and rasberries. The strawberries are called Fort Laramie, and they are an everbearing variety. The rasberries are called heritage and the reason I picked them is because you can mow them down with your lawn mower after the growing season is over, instead of having to go through and cane them each year. My idea of less work.

We planted peas, beans, beets, potatoes, corn, tomato's peppers and of course a variety of squash including an abudance of zuccini.