by David The Good
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The watermelon landrace project is continuing nicely and the vines are completely eating the garden pathways. We also have lots of cucumbers going to seed and plenty of peppers that need to be harvested. The edible D. bulbifera is coming along beautifully and the cassava is getting tall. All in all, it’s a lovely time to walk through the Grocery Row Garden.
Wait until the perennial berries and trees really get kicking!
Not bad for 10 months.
I’m David The Good, gardening author, homesteading, survival gardener, nursery owner and plant geek. Let’s grow some food!
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5 responses to “The Grocery Row Garden in Summer”
Your grocery row garden looks fantastic – so lush and green, not to mention full of food!
I know in a video like this you can’t point out every plant in the garden, so I’m curious: do you have any long beans or jicama in there?
I am growing neither this year. We got a late start on some things.
I hear you – I got a late start and missed out on growing several things this year, too.
I was just wondering from the standpoint of how one would fit those plants into a Grocery Row Garden system and how much space they take up, especially the jicama. I guess you’d want to grow them on a cattle panel trellis? Or maybe on a “trellis to make you jealous?”
Would they be okay as ground cover? I was just thinking that jicama vines might be too aggressive as a ground cover, especially in a newer GRG system. I’d be worried that they would climb and smother nearby fruit bushes and baby fruit trees. If you cut jicama vines back very much to control them, won’t that reduce the root size?
Yeah – I think they’d be good trellised, possibly down the center of a row, or even put higher, somehow. As a groundcover I bet they’d be horrifying.
Thanks, David.