My biggest and most favorite project is always my garden.....

This year in addition to my little garden I added "The bale garden project". My neighbors thought I had gone nutty but take a look it turned out lovely!

This is the "arbor" I made for my cucumbers and Italian Tomato Trees and Pocket melons.... 32$ made out of PVC. I then cut out the bottoms of the planters and put them in the ground and planted my various plants in them.

 This the big day... My bales were delivered. Here is my helper (Husband Mike) or in this case (Farmer Mike)

We arranged the bales so we could plant potatoes in the center, lined the bottom with news papers, added my seed potatoes, put down some compost and topsoil, and covered it with straw and grass clippings.

Around the bales it was time to plant, and I learned that planting seeds didn't work as well as nursery plants  and since it was a late start because of the cold weather I used plants instead. 5/15...

                             But by 5/27 we had this! (below)

and by 6/23 ...... (below)

                        And now it looks like this...............

And my arbor looks like this...

                                           
          I enjoy this and it makes me feel so  good to see the difference when I look at the
pictures.

   I can't believe how easy it is to make this happen..... I would say about an hour a day to water and tie back wandering things and until it is time to pick it isn't that much work... or maybe its just because I enjoy it so very much, because sometimes I realise I have been in the garden for way longer than I realised when I come on to the cool house. (I have a great farmer's tan now).