My Victory Garden - Victory Garden Menus

This is my curbside vegetable garden. I call it The Victory Garden.

I planted it here because this is the only place in my yard that (barely) receives six full hours of direct sunlight. I live under a big fir tree down the street from Burnt Bridge Creek Elementary School. We live on a main thoroughfare and with all the pedestrians and traffic, we receive more comments, questions, and advice. I meet other gardeners and share plants and produce.

This is what our front yard looked like when we bought our house.

I hesitated for two years on building The Victory Garden because I thought that it would stick out like a sore thumb in our neighborhood of lawns and foundation plantings. And it does! But, I watched a growing outbreak of herb and vegetable gardens the following season.

In the spring of 2009, we moved our parking strip plantings and put in raised beds for a vegetable garden. I stained green fir boards and we assembled the beds with deck screws. I chose green fir boards to prevent warping and I stained them a dark color to retain the heat. When we laid them out front, I thought that they looked like coffins. Ack!

We filled the raised beds with compost from our two-year-old compost heap and I added the trellises. I found the trellises at Bi-Mart for $25 each. Each bed is 3 ½ feet wide by fifteen feet long with brick pathways placed in-between.

I filled the beds with herbs, vegetables, and flowers.

The Neighborhood Miscreants threw the trellis tops in the road, so we reattached the tops with Gorilla Glue and screws.

I momentarily panicked when the gas company cut up the road to put in a new line. But the guys placed sheets of plywood up against the garden to protect it from the dust. I almost blew kisses at them.