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Posted New Panoramic View of Garden from last week. Long beans, cucumbers, & zucchini growing exponentially.

Hi Pam, It's a 50 foot circle. The beds are 3.5-4 feet wide, so there are 10 circular "rows". Of course, you can make it much smaller. I have 6 wide paths that cut it up like a pie to give me wheelbarrow access. After everything is planted and gets going, I try to mulch with composted horse manure/shavings. The soil is now so soft and friable I don't need to rototill at all. I rototilled to prepare the soil the first time, but I've read several places that tilling is not a good annual routine. This spring I planted asparagus. I'm so excited! They say it lasts 15 - 20 years, so I dug a deep trench, added manure and potash, and tried to do it right. We'll see, the sprouts are not out yet. I bought potatoes too, but they are not in yet. I plant onions next to all the circular paths. They take up very little space and grow straight up, so they don't block the paths. I use the outside rows for all my starter trees and shrubs. I've planted many spring bulbs along the rows (daffodils, hyacinths). They make great cut flowers and die back when the veggies get going. I feel like I'm getting more use out of the space that way. From Circular Potager Last year we grew snake gourds for a lark. Kids loved 'em and took them to school - a big hit! Here is the snake gourd trellis: From Circular Potager here are the gourds! From Circular Potager From Circular Potager Good luck with yours!

Jacci- sorry so late to respond! I honestly have no idea what kind of raspberries! But I have learned to get them from a small local nursery (NOT big box store) as they are likely to stock varieties that do well in your area, and they want you to be a happy customer. To be honest the raspberries have sucked until this year. We put in blackberry and raspberry plants 5 years ago and the blackberries took off, but the raspberries did nothing. They grew to a foot tall- that's it- with no fruit. Finally after 3 summers of that, we cut them all down and put blackberries in their spot. Last year they grew the normal foot (no berries) but this year they have come back with a vengance--- must be the competition ;). We now have amazing blackberries and raspberries intermingled. The berries look so different from each other that it is no big deal. As I type, DD is out there right now picking all the berries that are even 75% ripe and eating them and feeding them to the unbelievably spoiled chickens. Good luck and remember--- local nursery! Lindaas- Thanks for the kind words-- it is nice to see how different people garden, it always gives me tons of ideas too! Good luck in the DH dept! I end up doing everything myself because spring time is Tax Season and DH is a CPA! By the time he is available, everything is done...I think he planned it that way :)