Gosh...maybe 50 X 20?  I'll measure it tomorrow.  S is going to till it out about half-again wider this year.

that's pretty good for 4 families. how large is your garden?

just don't mix them up.

but wait. that's what i call my...
never mind
yeah, that'll work 

It pays off.  With very few exceptions (mostly mushrooms), between our three patches and the neighbors down the road with the peach trees and berry bushes, we didn't buy produce at the store for almost four months last year. 

you can call it Fluffy, if you'd like.

you can call it Fluffy get back to work, if you'd like.

It pays off.  With very few exceptions (mostly mushrooms), between our three patches and the neighbors down the road with the peach trees and berry bushes, we didn't buy produce at the store for almost four months last year. 

ooh...it'll be like a kitty

sorry, sometimes i can be such an ass

wow! you sound organized!  what a great setup.
maybe we'll just start by trading any excess produce and it will evolve into more. both neighbors have fruit trees. I would love to trade for some fruit.

we can pad it with lint from the new dryer.

could we get some new padding for the harness. its starting to chafe.

sorry, sometimes i can be such an ass

Ha!  I was just stopping in to say that we got six row of mesclun, two rows of butterhead lettuce, 100 leeks, 15 brussels sprouts and three beds of asparagus put in today, between three yards.  These are all things we haven't grown before, and because each yard has different soil (we have bottom land, where Lori has higher, drier hill land and Theresa is half-way between), we're going to see who does best with these. 

I started some seeds inside, about two weeks late, but so be it.  48 bell peppers, 24 roma tomatoes, 12 cherry tomatoes, some Amish pinks I saved from last year.  12 green bush beans, 12 yellow string (black wax) bush beans, 12 english cukes, 18 pickling cukes.  I haven't had great luck with beans, but Theresa has about twice as many planted as I do — she's the bean queen.  If we both have good luck we'll freeze a bunch for winter.

Lori is growing all the melons — too wet at my place and they rot.  Theresa is going to expand her squash patch this year and I'm trying some mini pumpkins.

I'll put the hotter peppers in flats later.  It's really too wet at my place for the hotter peppers, but Lori and Theresa both get pepper rot for some reason. 

I usually do the herbs, because I'm the only one who appreciates them.

We draw straws to see who has to grow zucchini.  I haven't lost yet. 

Honestly, we started gardening together by Margarita.    We have a habit of wandering into each other's yards with a beer or a Margarita on Saturday afternoons, when one or another of us was tired of working, and saw that we each were having liuck with different things.    Didn't make sense to grow what we weren't good at. 

...don't think jrz gave you permission to speak...just looking out for ya' mulean...

could we get some new padding for the harness. its starting to chafe.

could we get some new padding for the harness. its starting to chafe.

could we get some new padding for the harness. its starting to chafe.

could we get some new padding for the harness. its starting to chafe.