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41600 Re: The Garden
   Decomposed  		 POPE 5   06 Oct 2019
 3:40 PM
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   Your fall colors are coming on. They look good. we have one fall color... 		capt_nemo   POPE 5   01 Oct 2019
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Re: The Garden

By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Tue, 01 Oct 19 12:33 AM
Msg. 41076 of 62138
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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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