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Last summer, I 'indulged' my wife and the HOA and did the yuppie front yard thing. I built her a 25' diameter fern garden complete with a paver border and cement mowing strip. It took about 1,000 pounds of pavers and about the same in cement (mixed from 80 pound bags) along with 4 pickup truck loads of soil and dozens of ferns complete with buried soaker hoses. Then, add a 20' by 3' flower garden made out the same way. That was last summer.
This summer it's my turn. This weekend I built 2 4' by 8' raised beds in my back yard and filled them with a truckload of garden soil. Using square foot gardening, I should be able to get about 64 plants. I've started (most) of the seeds indoors on my sprouting table.
Here's the planned breakdown:
4 Amish Paste tomato plants
4 Homestead tomatio plants
10 Longhorn Cayenne pepper plants
10 Purple Longhorn Cayenne plants
20 Jalapeno plants
10 Black Valentine (bush) bean plants
4 mounds of Zuchinni (2' by 2' per mound)
If this works out, I have enough space for between 4 and 6 more 4' x 8' beds back there. Let's hope the weather cooperates better this summer than the last two.
This summer it's my turn. This weekend I built 2 4' by 8' raised beds in my back yard and filled them with a truckload of garden soil. Using square foot gardening, I should be able to get about 64 plants. I've started (most) of the seeds indoors on my sprouting table.
Here's the planned breakdown:
4 Amish Paste tomato plants
4 Homestead tomatio plants
10 Longhorn Cayenne pepper plants
10 Purple Longhorn Cayenne plants
20 Jalapeno plants
10 Black Valentine (bush) bean plants
4 mounds of Zuchinni (2' by 2' per mound)
If this works out, I have enough space for between 4 and 6 more 4' x 8' beds back there. Let's hope the weather cooperates better this summer than the last two.
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