There is still more to harvest. The hot peppers are continuing to ripen, though they are also late, and we are getting quite a small harvest as compared to usual.

Hot peppers grown in Earth Boxes -- Mix of Rocotillo, Kung Pao, Sport, Big Bomb, Pepperoncini and somewhere a single Pimento de Padron.

Bell pepper from my Square Foot garden

Weighed in at 505 grams. (Almost 1 pound 2 ounces)

Planting Tomato Seedlings

Here are some photos from the building of my beds for my square foot garden. Don’t know what square foot gardening is?
It is a very effective way of growing more in a smaller area. Please see the link at the bottom of this post for more information.

Here I am, starting on my very first squares, back in 2006.

Just measuring and laying out here

Starting the very first square

The digging starts:

Lawn be gone, welcome vegetable garden

Now we made the big mistake, we built the beds using these tiles. All well and good it seemed, until the first winter, when they all froze and cracked and had to be replaced with cedar wood.

And we were blissfully unaware of what was to come

We built a total of four 4X4 squares this first year, using the tiles

Starting on square number 4

Having moved on, and having replaced the tiles with cedar wood, now it’s on to building longer beds. These are 12X4.

Top layer of lawn removed

This is how deep I dig

Ready for the wood frame and then for filling with soil

Here are the two long beds, finished:

Done and partially planted

A little later, all planted in:

One of the beds planted

2nd bed planted in

And later in the season, all grown up:

Later in the season

For more information about square foot gardening, visit: www.squarefootgardening.com