>>13008275We actually just took down the garden this weekend (we live in S. FL and our grow season stops in the Summer, too hot for most things). This year it was a ~40' x 30' plot on the other side of our yard. As usual we prepped the soil by killing off the grass with a large tarp and then covering the patch with Sun Hemp. We let it grow to be about 8 feet tall before we chop it down and put the tarp over it again. It takes a few months of prep work to get a new patch ready for seed; but by the end of it we have the richest soil you've ever seen. We then tried our hand at drip irrigation, so we set up cloth on each row and ran the irrigation underneath them, we cut holes in the cloth where we then planted everything. We had tomatoes (5 variants), okra, yuca, cucumber and luffa(on chicken wire trellises we stapled to the fence), all manner of herbs, peas, beans, radish, lettuce, eggplant, peppers (3 types). Oddly enough I only now realize we don't have any pictures of the garden fully grown. But I made nice cylindrical chicken wire cages for the tomatoes which worked out nicely. Moving on to small livestock once we get our new land purchase secured, it's a nightmare out there in these bid wars.
