Rain Barrel Garden

This is a blog about growing vegetables for home use in the Pacific Northwest. We do raised-bed, intensive gardening using galvanized animal watering troughs as planter boxes. We collect and store rain water for our garden. Our blog records our learning process and experiences with this type of gardening.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

First Radish and Lettuce Harvests of the Year!

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We're behind on posting, but do have pictures from the spring planting and first harvests...  Time to catch up a bit! Three types of...
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Monday, March 5, 2012

Potatoes Are Planted

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Last year we planted potatoes in gunny sacks, to which we continued to add layers of dirt as the plants grew, about 24 inches of added dirt ...
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Friday, January 27, 2012

Amazing Survival Comparison

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The snow is gone now, along with the below freezing temps. After nearly a week of all white, about 8 inches of it, and temps down to 15 degr...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

First Snow of 2012

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Knowing winter was finally going to show it's white face, Robin got out in the garden earlier this week to harvest all the remaining let...
Friday, November 25, 2011

2011 - First Year Summary

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Garden idea was born in March. Robert was especially eager, while Robin was quite reluctant. (Said she has a purple thumb.) Robert persuad...
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Winter Crops Survive Harsh Weather Conditions

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We started planting winter crop seeds in mid-August and followed up with starts the first week of September. Kale, various types of lettuce,...

Aphids Parade on Our Veggies

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It was beginner's luck, maybe, to have had such fabulous results our first year of gardening, every plant producing edibles, growing wel...

How to Turn Green Tomatoes into Red Tomatoes!

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Looking back to the end of August, we wondered then if the tomatoes would ever ripen. We'd had one ripe cherry tomato... ONE. So we did ...
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Bob Demar
San Juan Island, WA
My wife, Robin, and I live on a rocky ridge in the middle of an island located in the NW corner of Washington state. Our 5 acres in its natural state (downward-sloping, moss-covered rocks shaded by madrona and fir trees) is a deer haven.

In 2011, deciding to learn gardening and produce some edibles for our table, we set about creating a garden. Our only water source is rain, so number one was to figure out how to get water (hence the name of our blog). Next we had to consider how to keep the deer from eating our goodies. And then, since we are both seniors, we had to figure out how to raise the garden beds. Our solution is raised bed, horse trough gardening, which also helps with water conservation.

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