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Re: The Garden

By: Decomposed in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 01 Oct 19 12:33 AM | 60 view(s)
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This year's garden was a measly 13' x 30' -- 390 square feet total. But 90 square feet of it was aisle, so it really was small. I did my best to compensate by crowding the plants... which turned it into a jungle and may have actually decreased production.

Next year, I'm taking a different approach. I've laid out three 2,000 square foot plastic strips (They don't look it, but each is 20' x 100') with 4' aisles, for a total garden plot of 6,800 square feet. That's about 17½ times what I had this year... and the old plot will get used again too. That should keep me busy.

It will probably be a few years before the soil in the new plot will be any good. It's been getting hayed for as long as I've owned it (15 years) - and probably for fifty years before that. I'm sure the nutrients have all been sucked out, so I'll add a lot of compost and fertilizer. Nothing new there. I had to build up the old garden plot as well.





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The Garden
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Tue, 13 Aug 19 2:22 AM 		Msg. 37729 of 62138

The Celebrity tomatoes that I planted in June aren't the most robust or large plants, but wow are they ever productive. I'll definitely grow them again.

They're just beginning to ripen and I've got about a month left before the gardening season comes to its end. I regret not planting them a bit sooner - but then we had a significant snowfall around May 20th and I don't know if they'd have survived.

The Celebritys stand about 4' high. The others, seen behind the hose and planted three weeks later, are taller than I am.

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