We had a very busy Saturday. We started with planting our garden. Jim made raised garden beds and I stained them last week. We are trying square foot gardening this year since we sold "the farm". We went from a garden area that was about 75 feet by 3o feet to four 4'x 4' boxes. It has been a little bit of an adjustment, but did you know that you can plant 16 indeterminate, vine type (I planted Better boys and Early girls) tomatoes vertically up stakes, without cages, in a 4x4 box?? And, you can grow 64 stalks of corn in another? I am beginning to like this idea. Plus, there isn't as much weeding and no tilling, which is a little annoying considering we own two rototillers! LOL!
We are using the book All New Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew as our reference guide. Check out his link here.
We are going to put a 2 foot border of cement pavers around and in between the garden beds. It will provide a weed free walkway and it will look like an extension to our existing patio.
Our other project was to build the shed we bought months ago. It has been sitting in our garage. We were very pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to assemble. The only down side was that even though it does come with a floor mat, you have to build a base, which we didn't realize ahead of time. So, we ran to Lowe's, bought a bunch of pressure treated lumber, and quickly built the recommended base. It added 2 1/2 hours to our shed building time, but we managed to get it done. We finished at 9:00 pm by lantern light. lol
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5 comments:
Looking good.
Thanks for taking time out of your busy Saturday to fix my sprinkler issue! You guys are the best.
Wow! That is impressive! We built (mcuh smaller) garden boxes last spring and this year was a breeze getting our tomatoes, cucumbers and squash in (and last year's single strawberry plant is threatening to take over one entire box). With weed cloth and an automatic timer for watering, we only look out for tomatoe worms and ripened fruit! Maybe when the kids are older, we'll get rid of the cloth so they'll have to put in some hard labor. I love gardens!
Candice.. Hi! I follow the different Veater families through their blogs to see how each of you guys are doing. I wanted to plant a garden this Spring, but being pregnant and having 5 billion other things... maybe next summer? Yeah we will have to get together next time we come to Utah it would be great to see all of you.
Hey Candice I did a raised garden also..the is my first experience. Hope somethin grows. :)
I only did tomatoes..I should of done corn.,,sounds good. Your garden looks great.
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