Changes thru the years...

My garden spot has gone thru a lot of changes ...At the beginning....we tried to have the area plowed, but needless to say that did not work....too many rocks...the person we hired broke his plow trying to plow up the ground......so Raised beds is how my garden is....

At first , I had three 4 x 4 beds here....and  as you can see some tulips there in the middle...you will see further down the bed they were in originally...

 

I decided one way to keep the grass from coming up between my beds was to lay down mulch that a local construction company had mulch up and along our county road...I asked for a load of it....

Needless to say that didn't work very well...

Since my garden in somewhat on a hill, I decided to use the rock I picked , or dug up and put them in containers made from old chicken wire...got the idea one day coming back from St Louis...the road department does it along the highways....why not ?...This bed is now build up more...

 

one of the first beds just for veggies

 

This bed was originally in the yard and not in my garden area...it too as been a veggie garden, but now is a Strawberry bed and in my garden area.

This is one of the original beds....yes, that is a barbeque grill. it is no longer in this bed and up against a tree, thanks to a storm that rolled thru here...I moved it to the tree....right now nothing is planted in it.

 

I added this last year. On each side is a climbing rose bush...its a old clothes line poles

Beginning of this bed..... now The climbing rose is planted as well as a miniature rose...and some irises and some marigolds....at one time I have had pole beans planted here as well

the beginnings of this bed ,that last year my hubby decided he didn't want any irises in the front yard....I had a clump of them planted all together in the front yard...I had them planted here, but now they are not...they are planted elsewhere...

 

I tried planting some cannas here , but they didn't do very good, so I plant them elsewhere as well....My mom plants these every year and digs them up as well in the fall and brings them in

Now for what my garden looks like now.

 

 

This is what the first picture looks like now...the beds except for one thing...Carpet.

 

This area has been added this year...

This is the original area...notice the carpet...it has worked for keeping the grass down between the beds.....
I have added quite a few things this year...my garden is always changing and am coming up with new things, or plants...like this year I have added some Daylilies and some roses ...and some shrubs...I hope you enjoy my garden....