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Re: First time gardener

At 09:09 PM 10/15/97 -0600, you wrote:
>sizes.  We've pulled the big ones out.  But we were wondering if we
>needed to pull out all of the rocks, big and small.  ...

Root crops such as carrots may come out deformed in rocky soil. I don't
think the other plants will mind. One thing you could do is remove the rocks
*only* in the square foot where you'll be planting carrots. Harvest the
carrots, rotate your crops, and do the same for another square. Eventually
you'll have a rock-free garden--if your winters don't heave more rocks into
your soil. This "one square at a time" approach is what i like best about
square foot gardening. In my experience in Massachusetts (read "Maine" ;-),
the new rocks weren't as numerous as the initial bunch i pulled out.

Use the rocks for landscaping. Those beautiful New England stone walls were
built by exasperated farmers!

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|  Cousin Ricky      USDA zone 11, Virgin Islands    |
|  rcallwo@uvi.edu   formerly zone 6, Massachusetts  |
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