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Re: Brown Thumb in Utah with Questions

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>>         Question 1:  Did you start with only one 4 foot by 4 foot 
>>square?  Or do you need two squares?  My husband says I should do 
>>at least two since there are two of us (since my teenage daughter 
>>isn't going to help, I'm not including her), but I don't know if 
>>that's too much for my first time.
>
>It depends.  It is better to do only one bed, and do it right, than 
>to do two or more beds and then take shortcuts because it looks like 
>too much work to do it right.  So I wouldn't do more than one bed at 
>a time, and would be sure to stop before you feel burdened.  But 
>that doesn't mean you can't do more than one bed this year.  For 
>instance, you can do one bed this weekend.  See how much work it is 
>(or isn't, compared to what you might have expected).  Plant it such 
>that if that's all you do this year, you will be satisfied.  Then 
>sit back and ask yourself if this is enough for your first year, or 
>if you want to try to do more.  Don't bite off more than you can 
>chew.  It would be much better to end the season going "That was so 
>easy, next year I'll do more!" than to say "I tried to do too much, 
>and it wasn't any fun and I gave up because it was more than I 
>wanted to do."


This is great advice: build one this weekend, get it all ready to go 
so you can stop there and have a completed project. Nothing says you 
can't build more next weekend if you want.
-- 
Katherine Wendt
DataWiz Solutions
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