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If I could teach you one tool and only one tool to maximize your garden’s harvest, it would be succession planting! Technically succession planting is putting in a new bed of the same vegetable at intervals throughout the growing season. Basically it’s continuous planting or staggered plantings so that you get a constant harvest of Read More >>
I had hoped to plant two of my beds square foot style this year. Now that the HOA is poking around, I am reconsidering my whole plan. Still, even if I don’t get to, I figured I could live vicariously through all of you. Square foot gardening is a GREAT way to get really high Read More >>
Lucy and I were out in the garden this morning so I snapped a few pictures of our square foot garden and holy cow is it overgrown or what? You can hardly see the square foot garden dividers. This is the giant zucchini we harvested. I’m not sure how we overlooked it when we were Read More >>
I thought I would give you a quick update on what’s happening in our square foot garden. The sugar snap peas are up! These pea plants will only get about 2 feet tall so they are perfect for a square foot garden. I planted peas in 6 squares {maybe a few more} and so far Read More >>
Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time in the garden pulling up spent plants and weeding the garden boxes.Even though the day time temps have been pretty warm here {mid 70’s} the mornings have been kind of chilly and it’s already starting to feel like fall. Which is sort of weird for this time Read More >>
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