Our Raised Beds at the Community Garden

Here's a little peek at our raised beds at our zone 5b Southern Tier of New York community garden.  We have gardened in one for many years because we don't have much sunny ground at our house.  

We are hoping we are past frost advisories - we had two this week (but no frost where we live.  Others would have had frost in higher elevations.)

This year, spouse (the gardener) rented two raised beds this year as it is becoming increasingly difficult to garden in the ground, although we did keep one in ground plot.

 Chive blossoms.   We are permitted to grow perennials in raised beds but not in in ground.

Garlic (in back of the chives) that was fall planted.

Purple tat soi and, behind it, "yellow squash".  I put the yellow squash in quotes because we have no idea what these plants are.  The organization that runs the community garden, VINES, occasionally provides veggie starts to the people renting community garden plots, but sometimes the starts are a bit of a gamble.  Strangely, the leaves were yellow when we got the plants but there is some new growth on them.   I'm thinking these are a yellow summer squash.  We'll see.

Pak choy.

Peppers, eggplant, and a couple of tomato plants went in this week.  Under row covers on the left are edible podded peas. These are subject to deer attacks and we haven't found a good repellent yet.

Sadly, there is also theft on occasion and these friendly signs were posted last year.  This sign has the same message in various languages.

Part of why we garden in a community garden.

Our zinnias aren't up yet.  I started several from seed (provided in a "take and make" project from the local library) which we transplanted a couple of days ago.    I'm the flower gardener.

Last but not least, onions.  We buy these mail order as plants from a company in Texas we've done business with for many years - Dixondale Farms. Dixondale is winding down their season right now - I highly recommend them for quality and their customer service.  Otherwise, we've greatly cut down mail order - it's just too expensive now in these times.

Have you ever gardened or used a community garden?