Hunter?Gatherer?????

Hunter or gatherer???  Gatherer all the way.. The gravel pit garden is still putting out the produce and I am enjoying the work and the fruits of the labor.

Cantalope-tomatoes-bananna peppers-onions-watermelon- cucumbers

The darker round "melon looking" thing is a watermelon

The melons have been very sweet and a great size-vollyball size and smaller.  You can eat the whole thing in a sitting and do not have to put 1/2 a melon back in the ice box-no mess!
Here in Southern Utah it is now time to start putting in the fall garden.  Can you believe it!!!!

the garden of earthly delights

Nice fertile, loamy, dark, topsoil, the type that you really like to work.  Before I broke the ground, the surface looked a little rocky but it turned into a gravel pit.  I used forklift tines to break the ground, roto tilled with my new Husquevarna tiller, then raked and shoveled like a madman.  I hauled 8 tons of mulch from the St. George recycling facility and 6 tons of sand from Sun Rock....its growing!

                                      Armenian climbing cucumbers, onion starts from Ron Larson down on 600 South.  Ron has a heck-of-a-garden behind his house which is fed by a well.  I got 300 onion starts, garlic starts, and  a few Jerusalem artichoke starts from him.  The artichokes are seen in the next image.  Ron has been gardening in the same area for 50 plus years, he knows what, where, and when to plant.                                  

Jerusalem Artichokes

 Sweet corn, 10 rows 30 feet long; 40 tomato plants, 3 varieties

Early girl, Celebrity, cherry



The Flying Turnip

Spring Garden

Beet greens
Turnips, Peas, Beets, Radishes



Beets

Radishes

Dirt and radishes

It has been sometime since I posted on this blog. I planted a garden this spring so I thought I might re-start this blog and show the progress.........