Bed #6

Well, here is the last wooden raised bed, bed # 6. It is also the tallest raised bed with two extra 2x4 boards, giving a total height of about 18" possible. I have been having trouble with the potatoes this year, I think the soil might be a bit heavy and wet so I am not sure if I will do well with the potatoes or not. People here are telling me that the fall potatoes are better anyway. So I have redskin potatoes and blue potatoes. I have planted some Nasturium for flowers at the one end with the trellis and some leaf lettuce in between (the hope is to be able to harvest the lettuce and the potatoes about the same time.) The lettuce transplants didn't handle the unusual heat that we have had so it isn't as pretty as I would like it. Really to much bare dirt on this bed for my personal preference. I have lost a couple of potatoes so I have put some bush cucumbers in their place as well as some cilantro, just to see if I can grow it in the summer.

The tally on this bed is a little different as I didn't count the potatoes. So there is a row of red skin potatoes on the right, row of blue potatoes on the left and 7 lettuce plants, 3-4 cucumber plants and 2 cilantro plants.