Click on embedded links for more information   After finishing an early morning planting, the Veggie-Bed is entirely planted out. This season’s vegetable crops include: Kale Collards Carrots Onions Peas Beans Tomatoes Peppers Squash Chives Cilantro All plants were started at the Veggie-Bed from seeds. Now the real work begins – weeding! Writer: Tom Myrick…

Click on embedded links for more information   The kale and collards are enjoying all the rain and cool temperatures here at the Veggie-Bed. This 10 ft X 10 ft leaf vegetable plot has been yielding fresh greens to the dinner table every day for several weeks. Not bad for a small urban garden. Writer:…

With the last spring frost date behind us, these young plants are ready to be planted out. The cilantro is the first in line to go in the ground. Follow by the beans a week later, and the peppers two weeks afterward. Writer: Tom Myrick If you would like to be a part of Urban…

Click on embedded links for more One of the advantages of having raised-row beds is the ability to drain off flooding. The rows here at the Veggie-Bed are built up and have furrows between them. The furrows allow excessive rain to run off into a ditch that retains the water and slowly soaks back into the…

Click on embedded links for more information It is incredible how quickly life grabs hold. This tray of black turtle beans placed in the seed incubator only 72 hours earlier developed into seedlings rapidly. The seedlings, once fully grown, yielded approximately 1440 beans. The average return for beans is 120:1. These cultivars of black turtle…

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One of our goals at the Veggie-Bed is to perfect and practice sustainable gardening techniques. Another objective is trying different varieties of vegetables that grow well in our region. Year after year, beans (bush) have yielded good results. This growing season we are experimenting with growing Black Turtle (bush) shelling beans. We are prepping these…