Photos of Garden and Hardware

The Beginning

It all started last year with a raised bed, a few tomato and pepper plants and a 30 gal.trash can. The system is gravity fed and the trash can is fitted with a water valve that is controlled with a computer.

With a little planning over the winter, I put together a system that so far works  great. I really have a greenhouse garden outside. I am using the same raised bed from last year plus "tomato bags" of composted pine bark. These bags are used by green houses to grow tomatoes. The nutrients are Total-Grow from Winnsboro, La. and calcium nitrate. I have 10 tomato plants,  (two plants per bag), 12 bags of sweet corn (6 plants in each bag), squash, pepper,beans, and onions. Click below to see the garden on 5/4/98.

As you can see the plants really like the "stuff" I am feeding them. There are two seperate zones. One for the corn and the other for the tomatoes, pepper and beans. The corn must be fed a much stronger solution of nutrients. Click below to see a drastic difference in just 16 days.

These are "Blue Lake" pole beans. The beans grow fast and should produce until frost. The first row of bags are "Better Boy" tomatoes.

This shot is my "Better Boy" tomatoes. They are large and very tasty. The plants are almost 6 ft. high and still growing.