This is about all that’s left of the garden:

Last of the Garden

Our family wanted to plant raised boxes this year.  Here is the short story: FAIL.  Some things don’t work really well in raised boxes… not unless you give them lots, of attention and guidance.  Tomatoes for example.  Ours needed some serious cages, something I don’t have and refuse to buy.  So, this is the result.  I piled all the remnants of the tomatoes back into the boxes so that we could mow around them.

Next year’s plan:  A long skinny box for tomatoes with a fence down the middle for attaching the runners.  Small stuff in the raised beds.  Some things like potatoes, pumpkins, plus farm feed stuff will be planted the old-fashioned way.

On another note, did you notice the chickens.  I let out the younger bunch to free range again today.  No matter where I move the coop, they end up back at the barn.  They also helped themselves to some green tomatoes.  Grrrrr.   This is them running after being caught in the middle of their mischief.

Bad Chickens!