Our new square foot gardens are courtesy of "Papa," my resourceful, ingenious, newly retired Dad. Someone loaned him a book about how to do square foot gardens, and he devoured it. Since we've always wanted to garden but didn't know the first thing about getting started, he set us up right! He used an old, broken trampoline for the trellis. Almost everything he used he already had laying around. We're looking forward to cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, garlic, onions, potatoes, carrots, beans, basil, marjoram, thyme, and a few other things that I can't remember. We also have room for more!
The soil is a mixture of peet moss, vermiculite, and compost. It's supposed to be virtually weed-free because there's a ground cover that helps to prevent weeds from the bottom and there's nothing in the soil except the veggie/herb seeds. We'll see how it goes . . . Dad is pretty excited about it, and so are we!
Thank you Papa and Nana for a fabulous day outside! Miriam points to the garden every day and says, "That's our garden! Nana and Papa did that! We did that!" I love it!
3 comments:
I don't know if you like Cucumbers but you can run the vines up the trellis for more room. I get alot off two plants to last us all summer. I also can tomato juice and make salsa. Eric eats his weight in Salsa. Our Asparagus is finally ready to eat this year. I can't wait. Hope your gardening goes well. Try not to use any pesticides. I didn't last year.
We've talked about having a garden, but have never actually attempted it. I like your idea, we may have to try something like that! Hope you are all doing well. I am amazed at how your mom and dad haven't changed a bit!! :o)
You will absolutely love square foot gardens. We started ours last year and with only one box had so many vegetables throughout the summer. We had two tomato plants and they produced enough tomatoes to can over 20 jars of spaghetti sauce.
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