The Crop Circle garden is a garden set in a 28-foot circle in our driveway.
This year, I grew peppers, tomatoes, green beans, spaghetti squash, sunflowers, and tomatillos in the Crop Circle garden. Today, I tore almost everything out of the garden. I left some tomatoes and some sunflowers.
And no shortage of weeds, either. Here you can see three photos that show how I spent my July 4th weekend ... Friday, the Crop Circle garden was covered in weeds up to eight inches tall.
The soil in that garden is so good (it's a no-till garden!) that weeds pull out easily by the roots. When the weeds start, I find it's easier to let them grow a bit before removing them. Due to my hectic life lately, though, the weeds grew taller than I would have liked.
Here, I've staked tomato plants into the new Crop Circle garden.
This entire area was recently heavily forested but I had it logged to make room for the gardens. In the background, you can see some of that timber, all cut, split and stacked by hand....
This is the first full season to use our new Crop Circle garden - a 28-foot raised area in the center of a circular driveway! This year, I've planted corn and tomatoes in the Crop Circle garden...
Here is a shot of our new Crop Circle garden at night .... it looks other-wordly in the blue lights. I live very near a small airport, so I often wonder what the pilots think as they fly over it ... :)
27 cubic feet of organic matter is added to the gardens and rototilled on April 5, 2009. Here, the crop circle receives a generous dose of chicken and steer manure.
The crop circle is planted with Kandy Corn, and Sweet Meat squash between the rows...
This year, I planted Kandy Corn in the crop circle. Here are some photos of the corn starts as they are being watered.
Here is an aerial view of the Crop Circle that magically appears on our acreage every year...
