Summer 2012

Origin Story: The Original Patch

In the summer of 2012, our second summer in Ellensburg, Washington, we started the original Pribble's Patch.  On the heels of a couple decent container tomato plants the previous summer, I went a little mad on our 8x12 pati0 slab.  There were tomatoes, and eight-ball squash coming out our ears. We learned a couple valuable lessons, like some plants don't like to hang with other plants, not all plants are self-fertilizing, and just because you can grow kale doesn't mean you like to eat it.

Over the following summers, we never seemed to get anything in the ground.  I worked out of town one summer.  We moved the next.  The following summer we moved again.  Then two summers of living in a basement apartment.  Despite buying our house in June, the summer days were taken up with plumping leaks and bathroom renovations.  I bought a couple nursery plants, but barely got them in the ground before they had wilted.  The total harvest was 4 mealy tomatoes and the single squash the skunks didn't find.