Starting our Garden

Posted on 2006-Mar-21 at 10:08 - Post Comment

Take this with a grain of salt!

Posted by wannabeone on 2006-Mar-24 at 02:43 - Link

I'm clinging desperately to my copy of "Square Foot Gardening" to educate me on this sort of thing.

I'll check back and see if anyone else answers you. If I'm the only one, then you're stuck sister!! :-)

Blessings from a gardener wannabe, Kim><><

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Posted by DaisyChain on 2006-Mar-26 at 10:09 - Link

Oh my, that's an ambitious garden - sounds like you have your work cut out for you! I've found the local library to be the best source of garden info. I haven't found a library yet that doesn't have a ton of gardening books. I really like the Square Foot Gardening books and *any* gardening book my Elliot Coleman. Keep us posted on how it shapes up!!!
JennMarie = )

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Posted by Candy on 2006-Apr-3 at 10:24 - Link

Thanks for stopping at my blog, and looking at my goofy hat :) As for gardening, as you looking, look for companion planting. It is pretty good telling you what plants dont like being near each other.

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Posted by Dalyn on 2006-Apr-4 at 07:34 - Link

I offer you no advice right now. I just wanted to say HI!

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Posted by FruitfulVineof7SoFar on 2006-Apr-6 at 02:40 - Link

We are going to do a large garden, but in different 'plots'. I know Square Foot Gardening is a good book, very informational. I have even seen it suggested as a handbook for homeschool chidren, and I would agree.
We used it last year, and I had the children read to me what and how and spacing, etc. It is a pretty good manual.
What you are looking for is info on 'Companion Planting', plants that help each other that you want to plant closer to each other.
I think SFG has some in it, but I cannot find my copy at the moment!! Of course!

OrganicGardening.com has this info:
http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-5-19-108,00.html
I am going to try it as time and space allow me!.

Thanks, Jacque
lmk if you do it, and how it works for you!

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Posted by Anonymous on 2006-Apr-19 at 10:19 - Link

Rototilled and acre!!!!! Mercy me!!!!! It exhausts me to even think about it!!! How long did it take?!?!?!

extension service

Posted by Anonymous on 2006-Apr-22 at 08:54 - Link

My local extension service has helped me by email with many gardening questions this year. We moved to 5 acres last August and this is our first garden here. So, I am learning too.

Just came across

Posted by Emily23 on 2006-May-25 at 03:29 - Link

you blog and this interested me, so I googled companion planting and found this chart, that I thought you might want to look at. I plan to bookmark it and use because we haven't started ours yet.

http://www.gardenguides.com/TipsandTechniques/vcomp.htm

An Acre!

Posted by LindaI on 2006-May-30 at 05:59 - Link

Holy Moly that is a huge starting out garden!

Mine is about 4 ft by 4 ft! lmbo. But then again I was trying to plant with my 1 year old wacking everything with a plastic shovel....

Another year reaping the benefits of DAD's Garden! lol

Hey, so...

Posted by FruitfulVineof7SoFar on 2006-Jun-3 at 07:11 - Link

HOW does your garden grow? It must be a-growing in the past 2 months...