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Re: 1?=space, 2?=water

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On 08:51 AM 4/28/99 -0400, Katherine St. John wrote:
>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>Hi.
>
>I am also a new SFG. I live in a townhouse with a yard that is nothing
>but shade. This will be my first year of renting space in the community
>garden down the street that gets 100% sun. Here are my two questions:
>
>1. My area is approximately 50' length x 30' width. Let us say I decide on
>three 4x4s with 2 foot walkways all around. The question is, what do I do
>with the rest of the space?

Since you *have* lots of space, you can plant more of the space intensive
plants.  Plant a pumpkin, a watermelon, a zucchini or two.  Put in a block
of corn, and another block in 2-4 weeks (or more, you might put in several
blocks depending on your growing season length).  Plant a block or two of
flowers!  Put mulch down on all the remaining area, and mark out "future"
blocks even though you won't plant them right away.

I would lay out the space something like this:

                                                             
                              50'                             
     -------------------------------------------------- 
     |   ____      ____                          ____  
     |  | 4x4|    | C  |                        | 3x6|   
     |  |____|    | o  |                        |  Z |    
30'  |   ____     | r  |                        |__Z_|     
     |  |    |    | n  |                         ____    
     |  |____|    |____|                let the |    |    
     |   ____                           vines   | P  |    
     |  |    |                          sprawl  | P  |     
     |  |____|      more corn           in this |    |   
     |   ____       in this area        area    | W  |   
     |  |    |      if you want         over    | W  |   
     |  |____|  ^                   ^   mulch   |____|  
     |          |                   |
     | big path on one side, 4 foot paths go up from this path
     ---------------------------------------------------
                                                         
                                                               
Put all your smaller crops that require regular attention together in the
blocks at the "front" of the garden, and put the big sprawling crops at the
"back" of the garden, and mulch the area in between.


>2. There is no water faucet at the garden. I would be interested in
>hearing how other people in this situation go about collecting water
>and/or bring it to the site. 

I would ask the other gardeners in this garden.  I'm sure they have already
tried and discarded ideas that don't work and found ideas that do work.

>I plan on using a
>thick layer of mulch 

Definitely mulch!

HTH

jc


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