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Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

I love to cook too.  My husband likes to cook as well and we really
enjoy the pesticide free veggies.  The only crop that I found was really
not worth it for me organically was corn - way too difficult to grow a
good organic crop.  I've had great success with everything else that
I've tried: beans, tomatoes, eggplant, peas, lettuce, beets, carrots,
peppers, spinach, cukes and squash.  

Kim
Laguna Hills, CA  zone 9, sunset zone 23

Mary Thorp wrote:
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> I'd love to see more "how I came to this" stories, and here's mine just so you
> don't think I'm chicken...
> 
> This is our first year in this house, and the 5th year of gardening.  My
> husband has always been the green-thumbed one, but since we moved here I've
> been able to stretch my wings in the garden because the back yard is fenced and
> 
> the kids can't escape!  I garden because I love to cook and I don't want to
> serve my family any more pesticide cocktails from the produce section than I
> absolutely have to.  We buy all of our grains, beans, rice, milk, etc. from our
> 
> local organic food co-op, but haven't found satisfactory produce there (yet,
> anyway).
> 
> So I got this bee in my bonnet about growing *all* our own produce myself, and
> the sqft. method promised to be the best way to go about it.  So while it will
> probably take several years to see whether we can, in fact, supply ourselves
> with vegetables year-round, this year's garden is already better-organized (and
> 
> better-looking!) than any in the past.  I love thinking of each square as a
> tiny garden in itself, and I pay much closer attention to each plant and its
> progress (as well as the overall planning and design of the garden as a whole)
> using this approach.
> 
> Any other Gardener-Cooks out there?
> 
> Mary
> Richmond, IN
> Zone 5
> 
> Valerie Mutton wrote:
> 
> Valerie Mutton wrote:
> 
> > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> >
> > Hello list members--thanks for the flood of mail asking me to stay on
> > the list!
> >
> >   As requested by Richard, my story is: I used to live in a townhouse
> > condominium, where I didn't have to even
> > cut the lawn, and barely saw the outdoors anyways due to a rather brutal
> > work schedule. Then I moved to a new house, doing the proverbial
> > subdivision thing--big house, small lot.  Anyways, once I realized I
> > truly had my own patch of dirt, no longer just "exclusive use"
> > of a condo common element, I discovered an interest in gardening.
> > Unfortunately, I didn't have very much room to exercise
> > my new found desire to grow stuff.  So I started reading up on how to
> > grow things in small spaces. I now have three
> > espaliered fruit trees (a 4-in-1 apple tree trained to a candelabra-type
> > shape, a peach tree, growing fan-shaped, and a
> > plum tree). Then I decided that it would be fun to grow some veggies and
> > herbs, so last year my long-suffering husband built me
> > four raised beds & wheelbarrowed in lots of good soil.  I grew peas,
> > tomatoes, cucumbers, green & jalapeno peppers, & all kinds of herbs last
> > year. I even tried corn.  I was moderately successful--in fact, I made
> > pickles, and quite frankly, for awhile I never wanted to
> > see another cucumber again.  It was a real trial and error year, though.
> > I discovered I didn't shake the pollen down my corn enough, so the lower
> > ears didn't pollinate. I discovered that my pepper plants produced a low
> > yield because they were dwarfed by my tomato plants, which just
> > about took over the world, & definitely shaded out some of my other
> > crops. Anyways, I think the square foot idea is really cool, and I'm
> > quite looking forward to "growing season" again. And to this list.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > Val
> >
> > Richard Helton wrote:
> > >
> > > Val, I have been a lurker so to speak on the list for years, and I
> > > sometimes post. Please do not take this recent little spiff, as the
> > > normal tone of the group. I beg you reconsider your decision and continue
> > > to participate, you will benefit from wisdom here.
> > >
> > > Do you Sq-foot now or are you just interested in it?
> > >
> > > I have been interested in Sq-Ft since I originally saw the method on PBS
> > > about 10 years ago or so. However I have only had a place to garden in
> > > the last three, and my family and I sure enjoy the harvest we get from
> > > such a small plot of ground! :-)
> > >
> > > What is your story?
> > >
> > > Richard Helton
> > > In not so sunny Sacramento California
> > >
> > >
> >
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