Green Valley Gleanings

From City of Ramsey Councilmember, David Elvig August 22, 2012 Here are a couple of pics of the two large plants I grew this season this year. (still growing…) The two plants overlap one another and are still 13′ wide and 5′ tall. They required steel fence posts and rope to support; cages were trivial [...]

Remember the vegetable gardens that we blogged about on June 1st? Here they are again, two months later. Let’s see how they are doing. Jenni has an abundant supply of lettuce, onions, and green beans. Her tomatoes are doing well, although she hasn’t had any turn red yet. She’s been picking raspberries and harvesting broccoli [...]

You can get some ideas from this raised vegetable garden in Anoka. Your back says, “Thank you, Thank you” when you work in this garden, making it a pleasure to plant, weed, and harvest it. Enjoy the pictures!

Samantha sent some pictures to us of her vegetable garden in Anoka on the deck of her townhouse. What a great idea!

Do you have your garden planted? There are many different ways to grow vegetables, but here are three local backyard gardens with some various ideas in place. Check back here over the summer to watch how they grow. Jeff’s Garden Jeff has a 50′ by 80′ garden with a 5′ high deer fence surrounding it. [...]