Lori Prince, my sister Lori and my Parents (who always had a garden growing up) inspired us to do a garden. Where to begin? For someone who has never done a garden, and kills any living plant in my house, this was a good question. Lori Prince did a gardening class and even spent 15 min with me after the class to write down what I needed to do. We are taking the "square foot gardening" approach. So Mike built a 4x4 box. The soil here is more like clay and the soil needs to be above ground so the water can run off.
Then add 15-16 layers of wet black and white newspaper.
Then add potting mix (soil) and compost. 3 bags of mix to 1 bag of compost. For our 4x4 box we used 9 bags of mix and 1 bag of compost.
Then sprinkle some cottonseed meal, particularly for tomatoes
Make sure the compost and soil are mixed well.
Then plant your seeds or transplants. We did some of both to try it out. We also wound a seeping water hose throughout the dirt for watering. We will see how that works. Lori recommended a timer on the hose to turn on the water every morning for about 15 min. We are so excited and will let you know if any edible is actually produced. :)
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Greg and I are going to be doing the square foot gardening this year I will have to post some pic. too!
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