Bob Due's Terraced Gardens Farm  Premium Produce - Pesticide and Herbicide Free

These are Grey Tree frogs that sing to me outside my window each evening during the summer.

Tomato worm with parasitc wasp eggs.

These are the same sweet potatoes 10 days apart.  The two that I am holding are from several years ago and each weighed over 5 pounds and were tender and smooth all the way through when baked.

This is the Inchilium Red garlic crop for 2008.

I planted a solid wide bed of green onions in '08.

Cos lettuce will be more available again in 2009.

This is Acorn squash to the left and Butternut to the right.  The Butternut is doing much better for me this year (2008).

These are late Kennebec potatoes that were planted in mid June of 2008 in 3 rows per terrace with a spacing of 1 foot each way.  They were mulched and are looking great as of July 27th.

Roma pole beans did very well in '08.  I also had another flat bean called "Garden of Eden".  Both beans are are tender and stringless with outstanding flavor and will be more abundant for 2009.

The bees were still working the wild flowers in mid October of 2007!

This page was last updated: February 2, 2010

In 2008 I had one plant of the Stokes Purple sweet potato amoung my Beaureguards.  It has very good flavor and retains its deep purple color when cooked.  This variety will not be available for us to grow in 2009.

I planted all my garlic much later in the fall of 2008.  I was concerned about the late planting but am now begining to see that maybe all the garlics are doing much better with the later planting.  To the left you see the Elephant garlic just poked in the soil.  I covered it with a light layer of hay mulch.  The picture on the right shows you what it looked like on Janurary 19, 2009.  I just had some 2 degree weather and there is no tip burn.  All the other varieties are also doing very well.

I am experimenting with tunnels designed with 1 1/2" PVC pipe inserted over short "T" post.  On the left you see the 30' bows laying by each set of posts.  On the right we have just installed all the bows.  It took us only 8 minutes to do that.  The width is 21' and it is 96' long.  It covers 3 of my terraces and will be used for very early cool weather crops.

January 21, '09:  I just finished attaching the purlins to the hoops as you can see in the photo to the left.  The two side purlins are 1" x 6" sawmill pine clamped to the outside of the bow with metal pipe clamps.  The top purlin is on the underneath side of the bow and attached with plastic pipe clamps.  I did this to enable me to put support props under the hoops.  The 1 1/2" hoops are a bit weak when spanning this size of tunnel and will need additional support in case of any snow load.  At the far end you can see a 10' picking ladder.  There is plenty of height for me to work under this tunnel.

February 17th was the only day this week that was forecast to have calm winds.  So early this morning I proceeded to put the plastic cover on the tunnel.  In about 3 hours I had the cover secured and by the evening I had the rope woven back and forth across the top to help hold the cover on in the high winds.

After several days of rain and wind, I was able to finish covering the ends and now am ready to start gardening as soon as the soil dries enough for it to be worked.

This is what it looks like inside and outside.

I just figured my cost on this project and find that it is about 10% of the cost of a steel frame tunnel of the same size.  It is not as durable but if it works for one growing season then it is well worth the effort.