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.

Showing posts with label squash. Show all posts
Showing posts with label squash. Show all posts
Monday, July 25, 2011

Garden Guest & Eight Ball Squash

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We had a wee guest in the garden this morning. Apparently sunning itself on the red leaf lettuce, the little green frog seemed wide awake, y...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Harvesting Our Summer Squash!

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A week or so ago, we ate our first zucchini. Today, three more were ripe and ready to eat. Robin made a delicious stir fry using one gre...
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Monday, July 4, 2011

4th of July Garden Update

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Our strawberries are looking lush. First yield!!! More on the way! Squash competing with tomatoes for light. Looks like we'll have ...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Horse Trough Gardening - Progress Report

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Lettuce We planted romaine and red-leaf romaine lettuce on May 2nd from organic starts purchased at Browne Lumber/Nursery in Friday Harbor....
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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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