Herb/Strawberry Garden

Posting two days in a row, holy cow! And while a bushel of pears AND a bushel of apples stare at me, no way! But yes, I did it! (And I'm avoiding the fruit, since I just canned 14 quarts of pickled cauliflower. IT NEVER ENDS!) And I'm going to stay on the garden theme for now, although, you can tell from above that there will be more canning posts on the way. But for now, I wanted to show you the OTHER new bed. This one I did all by myself with nothing but a pitchfork. Yes, it took forever. And yes, it was tiring and made my back hurt. But it's the best looking garden bed I've seen (minus that terrible rock wall I made).

This is the new home to my strawberry plants and my herbs. I placed this bed here because I wanted to make sure the herbs were near the house for easy picking, and you can see in the bottom right corner the edge of the steps that come off the deck. The far end of the bed are my three strawberry plants, and the near end has the perennial herbs: thyme, chives, oregano, and sage. The herbs looked a lot better when I planted them, but I promptly sheared them off for storing.

That gap in the middle is suppose to be where I'll plant some annual herbs, but I needed to get garlic planted, but the other beds are going to be disturbed repeatedly, so this is where a few garlic cloves went. This is my first year planting garlic, and when I went to order some online, I was amazed how expensive it was! That just wasn't in my budget, so instead I went to the farmer's market, bought 2 bulbs for $2, and plugged a few cloves in the ground. If they don't grow or something else goes wrong, oh well.