Due to all the issues with the gophers and voles in my vegetable garden, and also a bad back, I bought a whole slew of barrels to create a raised bed garden of wine barrels! You might remember the post that I did a couple of months ago on what is inside a wine barrel. That post was the second step in creating this garden!
To get the garden going, we had to reduce the area that held the raspberries, and also the strawberry patch. And, we cleared the whole bed of weeds. I am hoping that this garden will do really well this year! So let’s go and check out what we did here!
Here is the first area that we put the barrels.
One area of barrels
Here is the other area…
The other area
I just planted these last weekend while I still could because of the upcoming chemo. Check this next photo out! My potatoes are emerging! This year’s potato crop are fingerling potatoes!
Emerging potato
My tomatoes have been in pots now for a month, and here is the Celebrity variety! I have my first of the season tomato!
First tomato – Celebrity
Check out my zucchini plants!
Zucchini
In other areas, I have artichokes and of course those raspberries!
Artichoke
Golden raspberries
I hope that you enjoyed today’s tour of the vegetable garden! As the garden develops I will share with you more views!
Hugs and be well, and thank you for stopping by!
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The barrels are great! I can’t wait to see how the garden develops over time!
Stay tuned! 🙂
Fab idea!
Thanks RoSy!
Good idea to keep the underground foragers at bay, now what to do about birds and insects? Hopefully they won’t be too harmful so you’ll have some good veggies to reward you for all the hard work getting the raised barrel beds made.
We are looking forward to this years bounty!
Boy these are going gangbusters maybe warmer in the barrels ?
Not sure if they are warmer, but they could be!
Very creative! I bet your back appreciates not having to bend over so far.
Glad that you liked them! My back is happy and actually so are my knees!
Nice job on the raised bed garden and irrigation system. Wine barrels make handsome planters. I always get excited when I see new plants breaking through the crust as in Emerging potato. The platforms the barrels sit on will absolutely frustrate the burrowing critters. hee hee Keep us posted as the plantings mature. Good luck for a bountiful crop.
Thank you Roy!
You never cease to amaze me. Look at all you’ve created while in the throes of fighting cancer. What a lovely barrel garden! Could I ask for some advice? Last year, I let my artichoke go to flower, because I wanted to see what it would do. The flower was magnificent! This year, I might like to eat one. When is an artichoke ready to harvest? Also, how often or how much should I water my apricot and peach trees? They’re loaded with fruit. Thanks!
Harvest the artichoke when they are tight and firm and about 3″ in diameter. Once harvested, cut the flower stem down to the ground. And, you can get a fall harvest off of your plant if you prune it back by 1/3! I know that your apricot is a mature tree and that the peach is still a youngster. Check out this site for watering: Fruit Tree Care
Thanks, Barb!
You are welcome! 🙂
Nice solution! This will be a fantastic year for raspberries here too I think. 🙂
I am looking forward to huge juicy berries! 🙂
Nice garden. Great idea about the barrels. I see you have “warmer climate plants” than what we can easily grow here in BC.
Average summer temps here are in the upper 80’s. And, this is constant from June through September. What do you grow in BC?
Cooler weather crops that don’t include anything from the melon family or globe artichokes, or anything with really long growing periods. Potatoes, carrots, beets, chard, that kind of thing.
Love Chard! If I could grow that here I would, but it just gets too hot! Lucky you!
And I look with envy at pictures of gardens with melons and peppers. We can only grow those if they get a good start in a greenhouse and we’re lucky with the weather, but it’s a big gamble.