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Re: Was/New to the List/Now how to work with old bed

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Hi Teri!

Thanks for the info! One thing we are planning is a wildflower garden, right
along side the vegetable garden. Hope that will attract those bees!

We do have some paving stones that were left here, and I will probably invest in
some more. I think we have some boards in the basement that I could use, too.

I ended up ordering the book today. My schedule is a mess, and my son has been
sick, so I'm not sure when I could get to the bookstore. I might even go to the
library to get a copy to read before mine gets here!

We bought a lot of seeds already, so I hope I can fit them all in! We have peas,
sugar snap peas, tomatoes & cherry tomatoes, green beans, carrots, watermelon,
onion, peppers, pumpkins, pickles & cucumber. The garden already grows dill. I
have been trying to keep it in a certain area, so I know where that garden plot
will go!  Next year I hope to start an herb garden in a different area, so I
will probably move the dill.

I was just thinking, our neighbors have a chain-link fence ... maybe I could put
some long boxes along their fence next year, for those watermelon! Silly me, I
was going to plant bushes along the fence! What a waste!

Thanks, everybody, for all your help!

Christine in Milwaukee

kitty wrote:

> Christine- You can  use old  boards and  planks for walkways or those
> 59cents each concrete pavers. Your could even use carpet strips if you
> wanted-covered with hay. You just need something to stand on to avoid
> compacting the soil and to divide the squares- keep in mind- they don't have
> to be exactly 1x1 squares!Work with what you have- I have one bed that is
> 3x7- not a typical square foot size but it was here when I moved here so I
> just divide it up intosomething that works for me- usually 2 rows of 1 foot
> squares and a row a foot  wide for a trellis.
>
> Do whatever works for you- when you get into your book you will see that
> there's alot of different ways to do things- also - keep checking out the
> website and visiting people's gardens-Don't feel that you have missed the
> opportunity to Sq Ft this year because you didn't get raised boxed beds in!
> Have fun- learn as you go and grow some tomatoes!You will do some things
> right and mess  up on  other things.
>
>  Last year  my plants were great, my soil was lovely, my beds were ok, the
> water system was ok-had hardly any bug problems- but I didn't have enough
> BEESand  very few things got polinated - hence- few veggies!So this year I
> have planted lots of blooming things near and in the garden to make sure
> things get polinated.I am sure that something else will happen that I didn't
> thinkof! I will work on correcting that thing next year-- that is the fun of
> it-and it really has been fun and . You will be suprized how nice this first
> garden will be- find something to make walkways with--old boards- what
> ever-You and your son are gonna have a ball and now that you have the
> book-DEVOUR IT!-Teri ----
>


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