western view of the entire garden. Tomatoes ,peppers, eggplant,cucumbers,zucchini squash, cabbage,broccoli, onions,spinach, corn and beans .and a few herbs- dill, cilantro,(2)basil. This has been a water year. I've had years prior that once I put the plants in ,I never watered it once after the initial transplant. I've also had years (like last year) that it rained so much ,it drowned the whole plot.
this is my experiment trying straw bale gardening , with potatoes. They seem to be doing well . I read that once you try it this way , you never go back to growing taters any other way. The spuds grow better, are cleaner and easier to harvest, just bust the bale. We'll see. I planted some other stuff in the straw but not much else has taken off. Red Chard seeds came up but kind of at a standstill.
asparagus is on this side of the bale line. lettuce and other shade loving plants are on the opposite end. I tried planting carrots in the bales too but they don't seem to be doing anything.
The "bugout bag" of seed I bought last year from Sustainable Seed Co was supposed to provide upwards of 3000 lbs of food. I haven't seen anything that would keep a mouse alive for a day out of it yet.
