User:David Hamsa

Hi all, I'm a gardener so gardening and cooking are just a few of my passions in life. My hands love the dirt and my soul loves the anticipating adventure.

I grow my vegetables in a 6-foot wide x 12-foot long x 2-inch thick box of pretreated Douglas fir with cedar corner posts 6-inch x 6-inch square routed 2-inches to hold the boards. I use carriage bolts with washers and wing nuts with washers to attach after drilling the correct diameter holes. Girls can do anything, and I had no help from my male neighbors.

A day later, I called the garden center and had 3.3-cubic yards of topsoil put in at an expensive price even after putting regular dirt in the bottom 10-inches deep. It is not necessary to put the corners in concrete and you put nothing in the bottom of the box.

Niagara grapes twist and coil along the house on coated wires and they produce lots of fruit for homemade jelly and juice. A robin delighted me by building a nest in the grape vines one year.

Being single, I don’t need entire rows of anything and the seeds can be planted closer than in a garden dug into the earth. You don’t even need to make rows.

There are no weeds to pull; watering is easy to do with a hose in early morning or late evening or enjoy nature’s free rain. The wood is not to be painted or sealed; it becomes a nice weathered look to last forever. There is no bending, so no back pain and the center can be reached without a problem because the center is only 3-feet from the long end boards.

The onion sets I plant I love in salads known as ‘green onions’ then let most of them turn to big bulbs for autumn to pull up and let air dry on my garage floor removing the tops first.

You can visit my website to see photos of my garden and my vegetables.

Thanks for reading!