This summer is progressing nicely and my Riverdale garden is overflowing with nature's abundance. The swiss chard and peppers are producing a few meals worth of tender greens every week. The herb garden is increasing my stockpile of oregano, cilantro, dill and chives. And most importantly, I'm being deluged with scores of tomatoes, scores of summer squash, and bag after bag of pole beans.
The 2 raised bed gardens represent a mere 70 square feet of cultivated soil, and yet their productivity has been absolutely astounding. Every square inch of soil is intensively cultivated, every crop is succeeded by other crops, the peas were succeeded by the beans, lettuce will success the swiss chard, sweet corn will succeed the summer squash and so on. In this manner, 2 small raised beds will produce several hundred pounds of nutritionally dense, organic produce.
Here we have straight necked, curve necked and green summer squash. The curved necked summer squash didn't grow as well as their cousins. I think I won't plant any next year.
We've gotten so many tomatoes that I don't know what to do with it all. We've been eating tomatoes every day for weeks! And the truth is, the fresh tomatoes from a garden is far superior to store bought one.
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