Gardens, everyone has one, whats yours look like???

man this post is making me hungry and motivated. I just never had much of a green thumb. When i was a kid my grandparents owned property in trinidad and my grandma had a HUGE garden. I remember many happy hours sitting in the garden chowing down on a wide assortment of fresh veggies.

Last year FM1 showed a picture of his potato tower (    http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=65219.msg766149#msg766149 ) and I've wanted to make one ever since.  The soil in my yard is full of diseases so my potato growing endeavors have resulted in small, mishapen, spuds with poor flavor. I made two towers with eight different varieties of potatoes so hopefully this year will be spud bonanza!
Also I transplanted the tomatoes I started from seed in January in the ground today.

Interesting idea.  I tried a raised bed for spuds last year but it didn't work out so well.  Heck, my entire garden kinda frizzled.  A couple of weeks before I was going to pull my onions (350), stockton reds, red rockets and walla walls, my chickens decided they tasted good and decimated them in less than a week.  I also found out my chickens like artichoke plants.  It was all downhill from there. 

The new fence is almost complete, chickens only get 1/3 of my backyard.

Last year FM1 showed a picture of his potato tower (    http://www.norcalkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=65219.msg766149#msg766149 ) and I've wanted to make one ever since.  The soil in my yard is full of diseases so my potato growing endeavors have resulted in small, mishapen, spuds with poor flavor. I made two towers with eight different varieties of potatoes so hopefully this year will be spud bonanza!
Also I transplanted the tomatoes I started from seed in January in the ground today.

Be sure to let us know if it works. I've seen lots of ways to do it, but no one ever shows the results. I tried it with buckets and got results similar to in ground.  I wonder if FM1 got good results.

Interesting idea.  I tried a raised bed for spuds last year but it didn't work out so well.  Heck, my entire garden kinda frizzled.  A couple of weeks before I was going to pull my onions (350), stockton reds, red rockets and walla walls, my chickens decided they tasted good and decimated them in less than a week.  I also found out my chickens like artichoke plants.  It was all downhill from there. 

The new fence is almost complete, chickens only get 1/3 of my backyard.

Dang, I used to let chickens go in my garden to keep the bug population down.  The only thing they ate was the occasional strawberry
You are supposed to FEED the chickens ya know 

i made one of those potato towers in November (I think) and it was going pretty strong but I didn't protect the plants from the frost so they've died out.  There are a lot of baby potatoes in there and I harvest them once in a while.  With this warmth, I'm expecting that the potato plants will begin to grow again.