Re: First "true" Sqft garden...
Sounds plumb great to me. Go for it!
Jim Curts
--- Dawn Gilmore <dawnlist@ecsmetro.com> wrote:
>
> I've been subscribed to this list for several years
> now, but due to
> frustration at never seeming to be able to get a
> garden together, I'd
> stopped posting, and have been lurking now for a
> while. It seems that I
> was always waiting for the friend who promised to
> come and plow the
> garden area for me, and invariably their tractor
> would break, or by the
> time they came, we were so far into the season, that
> it was really too
> late to garden (Zone 4, with frost-free season
> basically June
> 1-September 1)...
>
>
> This year, I had decided I wasn't going to even
> bother, I wasn't going
> to buy seeds... well, in early June, I had a change
> of heart, I went to
> Kmart and bought two wading pools, and then to Home
> Depot where I bought
> bagged dirt & humus (they were all out of bagged
> compost). I took them
> home, mixed them all together, with some bagged dirt
> I bought last year,
> and some "worm dirt" I had purchased...
>
> In these little pools, which measure 40" in
> diameter, I have planted a
> grape tomato plant, 6 leaf lettuce plants, 3 basil
> plants (that wasn't
> actually to square foot recommendations, but I
> figure when I harvest the
> lettuce, I can always give the basil a little more
> space) 3 broccoli
> plants, one of the pools has a sugar baby watermelon
> plant and a square
> of carrots, the other has a cantaloupe plant and a
> square of beets. I
> let the kids plant the beets and carrots, and it now
> looks like I'll
> probably end up with two of each... LOL!! I may try
> to replant the
> beets for a fall harvest.
>
> The plants are thriving, and beautiful... We've
> already harvested some
> of the lettuce (outer leaves) and used it on
> sandwiches, and salads.
> The grape tomatoes have flowered, the broccoli is
> starting to show the
> beginnings of the head of broccoli. The vines were
> very slow for a long
> time, but are finally starting to show some growth
> (the plan is to let
> them sprawl on the ground alongside the pools, until
> we harvest the
> broccoli and lettuce, and then we should be able to
> move the vines onto
> the pool.
>
> Just thought I'd share our results for our very
> unconventional garden!
>
> Dawn G.
> Zone 4
> Northern Michigan
>
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