RE: garden planning
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- Subject: RE: garden planning
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- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 08:29:57 -0500
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Carleen,
Yes, I must admit that I also ENJOY planning/graphing my garden. It does
help in rotating plants and figuring out what seed to buy. Although I must
admit I did buy a little too many seeds this year (3 packs of radish seeds?
the same variety?)....
Beth (MD zone 7)
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From: rosenlund [r*@transport.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 8:28 PM
To: Veggie-List
Subject: Re: garden planning
I'm a list person and love to graph things. Since this is my first
garden at this home and it's been so long since I grew any good
amount of veggies I graphed up my available space. I wanted to get
an idea of how much seed I would need, how many feet or count of
plants I would need to feed my family of four (found a great chart in
Seed Blum's catalog for that one) how much I might want to put up,
some for saving seed (timing can be very important for preventing
cross pollination) for rotating crops and I hope to note what came up
when...
Then I got really silly and cut out ''island'' forms of my desired
crops moving them onto the graph paper so as to leaving me desired
path and bed space. Decide were I want to add needed trellising,
tall plants, plants that tolerate some shade, those that need full
sun, ones that need more water closer to my water source... course
I re-graphed and re-graphed (rather an obsessive hobby of mine).
Just now I planted peas, spinach and radish... just kind of in the
first available spot... :-P (I did use my graph map as a
reference.)
So did it do me any good ? Lest in my mind and I did resist many
very neat seeds varieties that saved my pocket book and garden space.
I'm also keeping a notebook of all the great hints I get off this
list. I've begun noting when I started seed indoors, when they came
up, ect.... kind of a science project.. (I home-schooled my children
for 12 years, now I'm the only student..) next year should be far
simpler, right..!
Surely it could be done as I did in the old days, at random.
Back then I didn't rotate crops, plan for harvest, or start my own
plants.... making harvest less desirable and had to give up on
potatoes and melons all together, yet the food I did get was yummy.
Sincerely,
~Carleen~
Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
