By Jim McCausland, Sunset Magazine
On last week's Association of Northwest Landscape Designers' garden pretour (the tour itself is Saturday) in Portland, OR, I found a vegetable garden that leaves my raised-bed veggie plot in the dust. Owned by Kristan Sias and designed by Darcy Daniels, these modest geometric beds are edged in steel and set in raked gravel, defining a circle withing a rectangular grid.
Heat-loving vegetables were planted in a red, infrared-transmitting (IRT) mulch, and tomatoes supported by beautiful steel cages. Everything is watered with a drip irrigation system.
A row of raspberries lines the garage wall behind the garden, and an adjacent fence holds paintings on recycled wood (and often done with recycled paint) by Tim Combs of the Reclamation Project.
Check Sunset.com for more ideas about vegetable garden design.
