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Re: SF zones and box markers

Ian & Laurie Stoba wrote:
>
> >to my plans and am more enthused the closer I can to planting season.  I
> >wish I had some specific questions in mind, but I'm sure I'll come up with
> >some in the near future.
> >
> Are you getting frosts in Martinez?  I live in San Francisco, and garden in
> Marin in Larkspur and haven't had a freeze all year, and have already put
> in cool spring crops, direct seeded.  Of course, I'm no expert and they're
> not exactly up yet, but for a few beans:)  However, I know my mother-in-law
> in Petaluma is still getting freezes cold enough to freeze the dog's water
> bowl solid.  I guess we're living in a weird area of micro-climates:)
>
> At any rate, when I laid out the two boxes that I've planted so far I used
> nails and plain twine to make a grid.  Since our boxes are 4'x12', I found
> it really useful in keeping track of where I was direct seeding (something
> I didn't do such a good job of last year and had resulting problems when it
> came around to figuring out what to weed).  Have others found this sort of
> thing useful?  Since this is a school garden that I'm working in, labeling
> for people to look at the garden is a goal.  Does anyone have a creative,
> more permanent, but still changeable/portable way of marking their garden
> squares?  TIA
>
> Regards,
>
> Laurie
> San Francisco (zone 10)


I used bits of wood placed in the ground to remind me where I had
planted. Worked well until my son was old enough to walk & strong enough
to grab them out of the ground.


Dominiuque
Greetings from across the pond, England
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