It's no secret that the soil in my Central Illinois neighborhood has so much clay in it that it feels like cement when it dries. But I still want to grow vegetables, so raised gardens with good organic soil solved my red earth problem. Each year my little garden grows, and this year I added a squash bed beside my old shed. Here's the rundown: sweet potatoes in bags, cucumber and basil in buckets, tomatoes in one bed, eggplant and peppers in another, bush beans in two beds, and strawberries in the last. The squash bed used to be a compost heap. Plus the chives still grows in a broken bucket beside the tomatoes. Here are a few pictures.
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