My Gardens
The tomatoes are spaced 24" apart and each are in a square tomato cage 48" tall and 20" square.
The green beans are planted using "wide row" gardening. This means that the rows instead of being 12" to 18" apart are the same spacing as the individual plants are apart, in this case that means the rows are 3" apart. This allows me to plant nine 15' rows and plant 1/2 pound of beans in a garden 15' x 48".
Last year I had 3 extra dahlia and 1 extra mum, so I wouldn't just lose them I planted the mum in the vegie garden next to the shade garden at the driveway end of the vegie garden and in the same garden I put the dahlias next to the fence between the acorn squash. My wife in the spring WAS NOT happy about putting flowers in a vegie garden. During the summer the squash hid the dahlia and the mum plants. From August on, after the squash died back, the mum and the 3 dahlia lit up the side yard beautifully! So this year I purchased 3 additional mums and 3 new varieties of dahlia and I'm am planting a vegie / flower bed!
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Flower & Vegetable Garden Layout |
Vegetable gardens |
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I have built a cart upon which I have 2 Earthbox (see http://www.earthbox.com/)
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Two days after transplanting the pepper plants (5/17/05) |
Three weeks later (6/4/05) |
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Three weeks later (6/25/05) |
First picking!!! 72 peppers!!! |
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Here is the plan for my flower beds for 2008. The color refers to when the different flowers bloom. The small squares with no color (there are 5 in the front flower bed, 2 on the left and 3 on the right) are where I am going to plant my dahlias in the spring.
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