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Some people like the artistry of gardening within raised beds in boxes, they make them look nice so it blends in with the landscape of their lawn. There is nothing wrong with wanting to try different things, I am finding I am very happy with mine, and I am a long time gardner who has a huge garden....the thing is my garden is at my mother in laws home and very inconvenient to drive way there to pick something for a salad!!!
So, I started my raised beds for things like tomatoes, onions, lettuce, peppers, squash and okra to have for a quick fix with dinner.....I wanted the beds to blend in with my landscape .....and since I didn't want to lug the tractor and tiller all the way here, the square foot gardening project is a perfect fit for my mini-garden.
Plus, I love being out there with it, I find it most relaxing to piddle in it and my flowers.
I am so very sorry you do not like new things, but merely ask you to not spread your dislike on a board created by people who do. So, to you I say, Please, chill out a bit and have a nice day today.
I ran into a site which may be helpful for those of you wondering about spacing of plants. It is www.gardeners.com. Click on Kitchen Garden Planner, then click View Garden Plan. The site is Gardeners Way info and shopping. You may have seen their catalog sometime. My garden is coming along well. Tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans are beginning to blossom. Exciting time!
I love growing vegetables and have tried many methods and systems. I enjoyed reading about the Square Foot and French Intensive systems, but when I actually tried it, there was something about the strict regimentation that turned me off.
I love growing vegetables and have tried many methods and systems. I enjoyed reading about the Square Foot and French Intensive systems, but when I actually tried it, there was something about the strict regimentation that turned me off.
That works for you. I, on the other hand, love organization and order, lol.
Hi all. I am posting more pictures and an update on my Square Foot Garden. I have never done any gardening before so if anyone sees something I should be aware of please let me know.
I made my first garden on 5/16/09 and planted beans and cukes. On 5/24/09 I planted my peppers and tomatoes.
Garden is sprouting on 5-27-09.
I thinned out my beans to 9 per square foot as recommended by the SFG book. On 6/1/09 I had some questions about my cucumber seeds because I seemed to have too many.
I wrote in and asked about that and I was told to trim them back. Here they are trimmed back.
On 6-6-09 my DH helped me build another garden bed. We used some leftover wood from our solar panel mounts. Here is a 3x10 bed.
I am very excited about being able to plant the rest of my plants. We moved the bed into a different area. Hopefully it will stay here permanently and next year we will add one more the same size. I might fence it off so the plants have a built in climbing support.
My DH is dumping in some fertile dirt to help me build up the bed.
Next I put the weed cloth in.
Then I dump the ingredients for the special soil mix on a tarp.
Here I am mixing it all together.
And now the fun part. I planted the almost all of the rest of my veggies. I planted 3 kinds of peppers, 4 kinds of tomatoes, 2 summer squash, and 1 zucchini plant. Here is my new garden.
I am very excited and I will be happy if 1/2 of my veggies produce. If they all produce come on over and help me out.
I will post another update when things start growing. I am finding out that I don't have the patience for gardening. I want everything "now", lol. But I have to wait about 60 days just like everyone else, lol.
Bless your heart YLisa for providing pictures that will be so helpful for folks doing the SFG! Looks like you are 'diggin' right in with your first garden it will all be worth it when you can go pick fresh homegrown veggies trust me. Tell Mike we are glad he is helping you with your projects also who knows maybe he will like veggies from your garden.
Bless your heart YLisa for providing pictures that will be so helpful for folks doing the SFG! Looks like you are 'diggin' right in with your first garden it will all be worth it when you can go pick fresh homegrown veggies trust me. Tell Mike we are glad he is helping you with your projects also who knows maybe he will like veggies from your garden.
Thanks. Yeah it's kind of like wearing my heart out on my sleeve. If I kill everything you will all be witnesses. I can't wait to start picking fresh veggies. I already told my stepdaughter that I might need her to take some veggies off my hands by August. I hope, lol.
Yeah Mike is a pretty good guy. We both help each other out anytime. That's how we are together. He will actually eat tomatoes. And peppers as long as I make sausage and peppers.
garden looks good Lisa....pretty soon you will need to be canning tomatoes!
I have 8 tomatoes on three vines so far. Three of them are large, 2 are medium and the rest just starting.....I can't wait to pick that first ripe tomato and eat it! I got my first pepper day before yesterday, the plant was supposed to be sweet pepper, actually it is hot pepper but thats ok too.
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Update on my SFG
. If they all produce come on over and help me out
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I can't wait to start picking fresh veggies. I already told my stepdaughter that I might need her to take some veggies off my hands by August. I hope, lol.
