Please forgive me, I’m a day late with this post, but it has been simply gorgeous outside and I haven’t been near the computer much. First using a layer of newspaper at the bottom as a weed barrier (hopefully, I made it thick enough) and then mixing top soil and mushroom soil we got from a local farmer, Hubster and I filled our raised beds. For $20, our 8’x4′ and one 4’x4′ are filled.
I checked out Smart Gardener and starting playing around with some of the layout. Compared with the info from Sprout Robot, I was ready to start sowing seeds outdoors. Afterall, they don’t really know that our plants are three weeks early this year.
Smart Gardener
This week I direct sowed Burpee’s Super Sugar Snap Peas, Easy Peasy Peas, Perfecto Radishes and Kaleidoscope Mix Carrots. After I placed the seeds, Belle decided to throw her frisbee and drag it across the top of the radishes and carrots. Ugh! We’ll see how many of them got tossed about. I plan on planting these in succession (weekly) across the furthest 4’x4′ bed each week.
Week 3: Raised Beds
Week 2: Celery & Scallions
Week 1: Tomatoes, Peppers, Sweet Potatoes & Potatoes
You are certainly ambitious. I got one of my raised beds cleaned out and raked flat today. Tomorrow I and my dear 86-year-old neighbor Bill who can’t drive because of his eyesight are going to get onion sets to plant and probably some lettuce. I don’t do the seed thing anymore. I’ll add tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers later and in a different section I do green beans and cantaloupe. We have sandy soil and they grown well but last year the ground hog ate the ripe cantaloupes at night.
Enjoy your day!
Wait, are we supposed to be timely with our garden posts? Ha, those are the only ones I actually do run in a timely fashion. Can’t wait to see more of your garden.
🙂
I really want to plant a ‘salad’ garden this year! I’m looking forward to seeing how your garden develops! : )
Looking forward to seeing yours too!
That layout is awesome!
Thanks Elle!
we used to grow sunflowers! you should too! (:
Casey, I’m going to plant Jerusalem Artchokes, AKA sunchokes which have a similar flower.
Your garden’t doing great and I enjoy watching the progress you guys have made. Frisbees, by the way, have been the demise of many a garden. 🙂
🙂 Haha.
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