This is my third year in a row now keeping a garden. The first year was in a very small corner of the backyard with my roommate Chris in a Lincoln rental house. We used a garden spade to dig up part of the lawn and then planted broccoli, onions, and peppers, I think. It had a little rabbit fence. I didn’t actually eat very much of what came out of the garden, except for some very small onions.
The second year, Ann and I spent $10 and had a good sized community garden plot. We ambitiously grew like 20 different things. I remember it especially fondly for the zucchini and green beans.
This year we have a garden here in Korea, right outside our small apartment building. The picture above is from about two months ago. The garden is planted in our landlord’s tree garden. Well, more like shrub garden. In any case, we have a nice little garden currently in production. In the back corner of the picture you can see our cucumber trellis. We have so far taken about a dozen excellent eating cucumbers so far with a couple on the vine now. Our tomato plants have now outgrown their trellis and are taller than I am, even though we have trimmed them down several times. I wanted to plant a dozen bell pepper plants, but lost somewhere in translation at the market, we ended up with three bell pepper plants and nine jalepeno-like pepper plants, except that they aren’t spicy. We also ad a good run of red lettuce. When the five broccoli heads grew all ragged like, it marked the third year in a row that I have failed to grow eatable broccoli.
