August 2007... more photos from the garden

Our garden is grown in wheat straw bales. Everything has grown super large and beautifully in wheat straw. This old form of gardening was easy to do and the plants love it. Everything is supersized, from the cucumbers to the 6' plus tall corn to the giant pumpkins. We used natural fertilizers and no pesticides to produce these outstanding vegetables and fruits. There are benefits to using straw bales - they hold heat and moisture quite well; provide nutrients as they compost, no weeds, and the garden is up higher - hence less back strain! The only downside we have discovered is that as the straw bales compost back into the ground it becomes more challenging to stake up the tomatoes.

A large pumpkin and a castle size cucumber!

Sweet summer corn.

Castle tomato plants growing higher than the building.

celery

A Castle Gargoyle watches over the crops.

eucalyptus