I recently read a book about a method of gardening called Square Foot Gardening. For someone like me, it's EXACTLY what I needed to read. My hyper organized mind was having a hard enough time with all the uncertainty that comes with growing things and with trying to keep up with the timing of everything. This book recommends breaking your garden up into 12"x12" sections. You can fit in more vegetables in each square, are constantly rotating your crops to promote good soil and it's easy to organize! I immediately nerded out and used my graph paper to map everything out - and made an accompanying Excel spreadsheet and calendar - and feel so much more prepared for what to plant when. I would highly recommend it to anyone that needs to take gardening one square at a time.
I purchased some lumber at Home Depot and split my raised bed into 22 sections. Under the cold frame, I started three different kinds of onions, peas, my kale/kohlrabi/turnip transplants, beets, carrots, radishes, spinach and lettuce...and I didn't even use up all the space! When you look at each section individually, it also makes succession planting easier so I don't have a bunch of squares that are full of carrots all coming up at the same time. Now we just have to see what plants actually live.
Showing posts with label cold frame. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cold frame. Show all posts
Monday, March 14, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
cold frame.
My dear friend Anthony helped me build this a few weekends ago and it has held up GREAT! (Rumor has it that the one he built for himself blew down in a storm the same week he finished mine which is just about how life goes)
It's over half of the raised bed that Mark made me last year so it's about 3x12 feet long.
It's STEAMY in there and definitely warm enough to get some things started. I have kale, turnips and kohl rabi hardening off outside right now in the hopes that I can plant on an overcast day next week.
(there's some tomatoes, peppers and herbs growing too but those will go in the ground at a later date)
It's going to be in the 60's this weekend so along with some bulb flower planting, I'm hoping to direct plant under the cold frame carrots, lettuce, spinach, radishes and green onions.
It's over half of the raised bed that Mark made me last year so it's about 3x12 feet long.
It's STEAMY in there and definitely warm enough to get some things started. I have kale, turnips and kohl rabi hardening off outside right now in the hopes that I can plant on an overcast day next week.
(there's some tomatoes, peppers and herbs growing too but those will go in the ground at a later date)
It's going to be in the 60's this weekend so along with some bulb flower planting, I'm hoping to direct plant under the cold frame carrots, lettuce, spinach, radishes and green onions.
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