Re: New to list
How about the vining varieties of Nasturiums...
Beautiful for your neighbors to look at, AND
a tasty and nutritious addition to your salad bowl,
leaves and flowers alike.....
My .02,
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "vicki acker" <vickiacker1@yahoo.com>
To: <sqft-l@xena.pkiclue.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 12:09 AM
Subject: [Sqft-l] New to list
>
> Hello Ya'll,
> I'm so glad to have found the list after a web search.
> Vicki here in the South. Southern born and bred.-
> I have been square-footing off and on for 15 years. I
> read Mel's book when my oldest (19) was about 3 and
> since we've moved often with hubby's job I have left
> many gardens behind. (Four to be exact.)
> We just moved to this house in August.
>
> Anyway this garden now is going to be expensive!!!. I
> started my beds about 4 weeks ago. I tilled in a
> truckload of well rotted sawdust and cow manure into
> an existing mulched site. My mom found a man who sold
> the sawdust for 10 bucks a load. I then dug deep and I
> bought some cinder blocks and laid out three 4 by 6
> foot beds with 18 inch walking paths. This was not the
> pricey part.
> Anyway to make a long story short I live in the
> suburbs in a restricted neighborhood, and even though
> the blocks don't go against the covenants I got some
> ugly remarks from the neighbors about them not being
> pleasing to the eye. My garden is in the side/back
> yard just beside the driveway. My long term plan is to
> have a French kitchen garden close to the house
> complete with picket fence and arbor. We believe in
> the pay as you go plan and my long term plan may take
> 5 years. As a social comment ,I think a lot of these
> neighbors are used to instant gratification. As a
> gardener I am patient.
> Anyway to please the neighbors and also to let them
> see that square foot gardening can be a pleasing way
> to garden dear hubby bought my Christmas present. 145
> dollars worth of beautiful slab rocks . We spent 2
> days building up walls in front of the cinder blocks.
>
> I'm scouring the seed catalogs now. I plan to plant
> spinach, beets, sugar snaps, carrots, spring
> onions,radishes and lots of lettuces in the spring.
> I'm going to plant some creeping thyme in the holes in
> the cinder blocks and let it cascade down the sides.
> Any ideas for other cascading type plants??? This is
> an effort to cover any last peeking cinder block.
> I will plant cukes, tomatoes and squash in the summer.
> Of course I'll add herbs and flowers. I use lots of
> basil and Italian parsley.
> My mom lives close by and has a large row garden and
> we'll plant corn and okra there. Mom is a Master
> Gardener and does organic as much as possible but she
> still does the row method.
>
> So good to be on the list. I don't get online too
> often. This thing can be addictive!
> Hope to chat later
> Vicki in Spartanburg South Carolina
>
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