Nice layout!

I put pics of mine up as well. The soaker hoses are an experiment this year... I'm already thinking that it might not work out so well. I haven't installed trellises yet either.

Here is a link that might be useful: Alex's Garden

Quasky, add a fence and a few flowers and you have a potager! :-) It's a lovely garden spot!

Alex, yours is looking very nice too. I was considering soaker hose, but I have so many pots and other beds that I'd have to keep moving the hose anyway so I just bought a wand to water with.

I'll have to post my one little 4 x 8 bed later!

Thanks guys!

OK, I may sound dumb, but I'm willing to risk it cause it sounded like a compliment ;) ...but what is a potager?

Will be adding trellises in a week or so for the cukes, peas, pole beans, melons, etc... oh geeze, what have I gotten myself into?

I've tried soaker hoses before, in my flower garden, and decided they're just not for me. I love my wand, because, like Alys said, I can drag it all over the yard for the other plants too.

OK, now lets see everyone else's gardens!

LOL! Look in the P's!

I didn't know what one was either before I found the Potager Forum. Now I WANT ONE! Here's a good definition I found on-line:

"Potager is the French word for kitchen garden, a creatively conceived garden, employing diverse and decorative combinations of flowers, herbs, vegetables and fruit. The original Potager was actually the cottage garden that combined fruit bushes and trees cultivated along side vegetables which, in turn, were intermingled with herbs and flowers grown for culinary and medicinal use. What was distinguishing about the Potager was the fact that it was not only functional, it was also imaginatively created to be beautiful."

In other words, a decorative kitchen garden, with vegetables, flowers, herbs and fruit, all planted in such a way as to be as lovely as it is functional. Most often they are geometric and surround a focal point (I'm picturing a tall obelisk in your center circle covered with runner beans!) and enclosed with a fence or hedge.

Did I mention I WANT ONE! LOL! But poor me, I have no room!

Here is a link that might be useful: Potager forum!

I really like it quasky. Esp the layout. The only thing I would change it adding a mulched or sand border (NO stones) about 1 foot or two completely around all the frames.

I think experience is the best teacher but my thought is that a border (buffer zone) will reduces slugs (traveling in from grass) and reduce weeding the perenial invasive weeds people call grass that will undoubtly invade the beds. And the lawnmower excuse people use - guess it only blows the weed seeds into the beds.

Can you put your compost pile nearby for your convience.

But yea, it is beautiful...nicely done.

Good Luck,
Gumby_CT

You can go and look at my first attempt at gardening at http://thereevesmandolin.blogspot.com.

The link takes you to a blog I started about learning how to build a bluegrass mandolin but I have been in a rut and have started a garden while I wait to start building again.

The one on the left is kind of a hybrid SFG and the one on the right is strictly by the book.

Here is a link that might be useful: SFG Pics

Great pics everyone. I will have to post a pic of mine soon, the problem is I never feel it's 'ready' for a pic.

Today the temps are supposed to go down to 35F overnight and a frost advisory is in effect so naturally the beans, maters, eggplant, peppers and vine crops aren't out yet.

My Sq Ft garden is very basic, just 4 3'x10' cedar framed 2x8 beds filled with Mel's mix. One cool season bed growing and one herb bed growing 1/3rd filled with onions, garlic, tarragon and chives.

Everything else has to wait for this cold spell to pass.

Well, ready or not, here are my pictures.

The view from my kitchen window - see the hanging Tiny Tim Tomato in the background?

Another view-that's zucchini in the peony hoop-we'll see!

I probably won't plant the tomatoes 1 sq foot from the trellis again, they are all bush-type, but about to shade the cantaloupe and beans.

Tomato, Pepper and onions that didn't fit. I removed the pepper because it looked sick, but it's hanging in there!

Finally, there are tomatoes on my Tiny Tim!
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Wow everyone...great pictures! Keep 'em coming! I know there are more of you out there!!

Thanks everyone!

Alex, yours is looking very nice too. I was considering soaker hose, but I have so many pots and other beds that I'd have to keep moving the hose anyway so I just bought a wand to water with.

Ya, that it probably the best way of doing it. But that garden is actually planted in my in-laws backyard, so all that my mother in law needs to do is set the timer for 1hr, and it's all automatic. I'm hoping that I only need to visit it weekly to watch the progress, until harvest time.

This winter, I'm going to try a cold frame over one of the squares. Two of my lettuce plants and one mustard survived last winter with no mulching, or any other protection. So I bet that if I put a cold frame in, I'll be able to harvest greens all winter.

Here is my first SFG! I wanted to start small this year and just kind of experiment to see what works and what doesn't. I'm hoping to add on next year. These pictures were taken right after I planted two weeks ago. Since then my beans, carrots and spinach have all come up. I know it's probably too late for spinach but it's been cool here so far so I thought I would try it. The kids all go check the plants every day after school. My 7 year old son wants to make ketchup from the tomatoes.

Quasky, I love your setup.

Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden 2007

My garden- I didn't catch on to pruning tomatoes until too late, hence my wall of tomatoes. The mutant plant on the front right is a broc that my friend gave me, he said it was oregano.

My spicy peppers. They are so out of control.

This is a view from behind of the tomatoes.

This is a tom I had to kill I am pretty sure it is spot wilt virus, so I pulled it just to be safe.

Any critiques or suggestions are more than welcome.

Becca

timtam and becca, those look great!

My link changed. Here it is with new pics of the garden.

Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden

Everyones gardens are looking lovely!! Here is mine. I added the drip irrigation this year.

There are several things there that are still waiting to appear.

Here's mine! Thought I'd get a pic posted before the deer fencing went up. The big stuff is garlic I planted last fall and some red onions. Not even thinking about putting the tomato plants out before the deer fencing is up. They annihilated me last year!

Here is a link that might be useful:

This is my first foray into the world of gardening, and am pretty pleased with the results so far.

Only a couple of failures (my strawberries and butternut squash failed to germinated), but everything else has come up a treat.

I'm still in the middle of putting out all my plants, however, the tomatoes, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, zucchini, squash, basil and peppers are all in.

Here's a shot of the garden without any plants:

Here's a shot with about half of my veggie plants in. The rest are on the right-hand side:

It's a 8' x 16' space with 102 squares. The three grids are made of metal and plastic mini blinds held together by drilling a small hole and attaching brads/twist ties/pipe cleaners. There are two walkways: one is 2' x 6' and the other is 2' x 7'. I only have boards for half of one walkway. The side row along the trellis is a full row that has 8 different types of tomatoes, 2 types of beans, 2 peas, 1 cucumber, 2 zucchinis and one squash. The rest of the squares have the broccoli, peppers, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts.

I'm thinking about putting in soaker hoses 'cause I hate having to water in the morning when I'm late for work. Maybe if I set it on low the night before it'd be better.

Here is a link that might be useful: Vegetable Plants Are In The Ground!

I really like seeing all the different types of beds. Am I the only one using "elevated" raised beds?

jmaellis-sfg.blogspot.com

Here is a link that might be useful: My SFG Blog

I have pictures of my SFG on my blog.

jmaellis-sfg.blogspot.com

Here is a link that might be useful: My SFG Blog

Just getting started with SFG. Had the book from 15 years ago, started building this garden (thus the odd size) and remembered SFG after the fact (bought the new book as well). This size should work out ok as we are adding 2 1ft walkways across the bed(s), giving us 3 4x6 areas to plant from the 6x14 area. We will have access to most of the bed from outside so shouldn't need the walkways much.

We ended up (after removing the grass layer with about 8" of depth. Sure takes a lot of compost, which oddly enough was hard to locate this year (in the heart of Central IL farm country). Seems everything has switched to pre-packaged soil mixtures.

Planting in a couple of days (so late), plan on having a tomato net on the north side between the pergola posts, should work out rather well (strong enough...). Also we live in a woodlands area and will be adding a removable rabbit fence all around, and hopefully won't need any deer netting.

Here are mine. (These are clickable thumbnails.) These aren't the best shots, but you get the idea. I agree, the first garden just cries out for a fence and obelisk.

First, the most beautiful flower in my garden (with a little side shot of sweet peas growing to shade my lettuces).

My gardens. I actually have three; but you can't see the third one here. I have tons of room to grow things, but I have some perennial herbs that are pretty much taking over the third garden.

I posted photos a day or so ago on the "It's a Jungle out there" thread. But if you missed it, here's a link to a photo!

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