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Gardening Square

I love, love, love square foot gardening! It’s so simple and it makes perfect sense. I’m turning my entire backyard into a square foot garden. So far I have 6 beds with 5 more in progress (I’m not that great at carpentry).  I have 4 3×3 beds, 2 3×2 potato bed/bins and 1 8×2 trellis bed. The trellis bed is for tomatos. I have indeterminate varieties. They like to grow crazy all over the place, but with the trellis I (hopefully) can keep them under control.

I bought my tomato plants from Territorial Seeds. They let you buy single plants at a time (as opposed to other catalogs that make you buy at least three), so you can try a bunch of different varieties without an out of control garden.

Next year I’ll ask to have my plants delivered in early May, instead of late April, because one of the plants arrived frosted and wilted. They also had aphids!!! I’m NOT happy about that, because they spread to all my other seedlings. But a quick spray of neem and they’re dead green pin heads.

I hope to build another 2 trellis boxes for my melons. I’m trying a bunch of crazy Asian melons and one from Iraq. I bought the seeds from Bakers Creek Heirloom Seeds.

The lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, kale and cauliflower seedlings that I planted out last week did not appreciate the 5 inches of snow that fell on Saturday. They are dead. Dead. Dead. It’s OK, I have about a hundred more. I’m growing the broccoli, lettuce, ect. for my pet chickens. Broccoli is $2.00 a bunch at the grocery store and they can eat a bunch in about….um….60 seconds.

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