Monthly Archives: March 2009
Onions
Onions are a hardy vegetable that grow best in cool weather. When planting onions, you have 3 options–seeds, sets, and transplants. Spring Planting Start seeds indoors 10 weeks before the frost date, but I suggest purchasing sets or transplants. Plant onion sets outside as soon as you can work the soil, about 8 weeks before the frost date. These look like dry mini-onions. Plant them pointy side up. The smallest sets can be planted every 4-6″ (4 or 9 per square foot) to grow into mature onions. Plant the bigger onion sets every 3″ (16 per square) to grow green onions. … Continue reading
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Sometimes, Gardening is Ugly
I ran into a dilemma as I considered including photos of myself on this blog. You see, I almost NEVER look good when I garden. In this picture, I hadn’t showered for two days. Why shower and put on cute clothes when you’re about to go spread manure around? Typically, I wear a bandana to keep my hair back (hence my icon girl), but today was really sunny and a bit cold. So I swapped my normal head-wear for this ski cap. I didn’t purposely mix a purple shirt, grey pants with an orange stripe, and green gloves–that kind of fashion … Continue reading
Update on Peas!
According to Mel’s All New Square Foot Gardening book, peas should be planted 5 weeks before the last frost date. A friend of mine heard you could plant anytime after President’s day (end of February). However, the reference sheet for growing peas (from the Utah State Extension) says to plant as soon as soil temperatures reach 40 degrees. Since I don’t have a thermometer for my soil, and I had NO IDEA when this would be, I called my local extension office (that’s what I love about the state extension–free advice!). They said: “As soon as you can work the … Continue reading
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Square Foot Gardening Plans–My 2009 Garden Plan
Below is my gardening plan for the year 2009. Here is a list of plans from other years or other people. Sample Square Foot Gardening Plans Creating a Square Foot Gardening Plan My 2008 Garden Plan My 2009 Garden Plan My 2010 Garden Plan Sandra’s 2010 Garden Plan Emilee’s 2010 Garden Plan Here it is–my 2009 SFG garden plan (click on the picture to see a bigger version). I have 5 garden beds altogether–four that are 4×4, and one that is 4×8. One of the things I am doing this year is to plant all my spring veggies on the … Continue reading
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Little Packets of Joy!
So you know you’ve officially become a gardening person when you can stand in the seed aisle at Wal-Mart for over 30 minutes, and still not decided what to get! After working on my garden plan (post coming soon!) I determined what new plant varieties I wanted to try this year. New to my garden will be watermelon and cantaloupe. I’m hoping to trellis them–anybody have any experience with this? The first year I planted pole beans, a huge space saver. But I hated the beans. So last year I converted to bush, and will do it again this year. … Continue reading
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