Dedicated Gardener

I decided that I need more space to garden. For the last 3 Summers, I have used tomato bags to grow tomatoes because the soil here is mostly clay. And every year, I have a hard time keeping them staked up with bamboo sticks and trellises because they get so top heavy; and every year, they get blown over by a windy Summer storm. I don’t just plant 2 or 3 tomato plants, like most normal people do. I have what you call…. tomato greed. I want as many as I can have!!! Of course, it’s so that I can jar them and use them all Winter long.

So, being that gardening season is just around the corner, I put my handy-dandy hubby to work. He designed a raised garden bed just for my tomatoes, with stakes already drilled in to the sides. Its measurements are 3ft x 8ft. Heaps of room!

Now I can grow up to 12 tomato plants! He left the stakes off the two ends because I want to attempt growing cantaloupe (rockmelon) this year, so I will put them there at each end. This means I will only have 10 tomato plants this year. I’m already having issues with this…

Another view from my other raised garden.


Sunny helped too… He supervised!

Now the next mini project is to extend my main raised garden bed. I gave the mix n’ match bits on the right of the photo to a friend that can use them. This new extended garden will measure 10ft x 3ft. Wow..wow..wow! I can hardly wait!!


After this minor wee project, my handy hubby will start his next big project (below).



He’s gonna make proper stairs to replace this wobbly stone path. Big project but at least he’ll be outside with me while I’m playing in the garden.

Updates to follow.....