Gardening

We have three growing ‘zones’, an enclosed in ground garden, two lines of straw bale garden then a 10x20 greenhouse. Last couple years we’ve been experimenting with straw bales and had some luck. The placement wasn’t real good and conditioning wasn’t the best. Ready to go full tilt this year started conditioning the bales in the fall with more to go in the early spring.
5a, close to 4b growing zone.

In all gardens we’re growing Roma’s processed into sauces, dehydrated, jams and the like.
Onions in the enclosed garden.
Peppers all the colors with some Pablano’s
Cucumbers
Zucchini
Green beans…going mostly in the bales this year they did great last year.
Potatoes…russets and sweet growing in 25 gallon bags this year, getting too old to dig in the ground.
Garlic 3 varieties Korean red German white and some other one that I forget.
Comfrey
And Marigolds all over.

Then there’s tending to the medicinal garden.
Meadowsweet
Bee Balm
Prunella Vulgaris
Elderberry