Northeast Gardening: Someone tell me its gonna be OK, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
Hi Wormboy and welcome to Suffolk County. We're out east, in Southold, and came from Rockville Centre and a typical 60 x 100. Now we have 1/2 acre.

Loved to hear from the Cape Ann person and the Port Jeff person, too!

We had almost nothing to remove and put in a 20 x 30 fenced vegetable garden and my DH put in a brick entrance to the garden and a brick path down the center to cut down on weeding. We also have six huge compost piles and he adds nine wheelbarrow loads just for the tomatoes each year.

The side facing the next door neighbors is lined with red and gold raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. A separate 12 x 12 patch is just asparagus.

If anything I think you might be short on space. Did you use the entire space for vegetables or did you leave space around it?

I'd never again make the mistake of putting any herbs inside the garden. Our mints are in a pot on a stand to avoid any chance of having them spread. Even the horseradish is in a huge (pretty) plastic pot (if plastic can be pretty!) The herbs now have their own 10 x 5 space (with female scarecrow) on the outside edge of the vegetable garden.

Just a few cucumbers can supply your neighborhood!

We have nine tomatoes in the garden and harvest a few hundred pounds each year, giving most of them away to neighbors. Two more tomatoes (and some lettuce {at the side of the house} more basil and other herbs) are in containers at each side of the garage door so even if it rains I can get salad without getting too wet.

Is your compost near the vegetable garden? Shed?

Good to have you here with us.

Edited to add that we do have a Troy Bilt tiller and love it!

This message was edited Apr 8, 2006 10:11 AM