Amidst the chaos of our backyard makeover, we're digging in and trying our hand at a vegetable garden. Again. Round 2. It's on. This time, we want to do it right so we've been doing a wee bit of research before we stick our little vegetable plants in the soil (which we've fertilized, tilled, tilled some more and then tilled again, thank you very much).
We found some easily digestible links for the vegetable garden layman, listed below are a few of our favorites. Any you'd like to add to the list? We can use all of the advice we can get!
top two images by Shayna Roosevelt, bottom from Sunset Magazine online
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My fiance and I decided to start a vegetable garden this year using heirloom varities and varities designed to do well in containers since we live in an apartment. Right now everything is pretty much dirt and pots but we hope to have some sprouts soon. Eventually we would like to have a garden like the pictures above.
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If you are looking for heirloom seeds you should check out seedsavers
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Lovely planter box! I can't wait to get planting, but I have another week or two before I'm safe from the risk of freezing temperatures. I was really surprised to look outside earlier this week and see that the garlic I planted back in November is sprouting. I had real doubts they survived the winter back when I planted them.
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Looks like you have a good set up for the square foot gardening method. I put together a sloppy blog with set up info and pictures: http://knorq.wordpress.com/ -More info available at http://www.squarefootgardening.com/ - I'm a big fan of the square foot method - it makes gardening easy.
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we're going to try our hand at a small set of veggies this year. as a kid I had a huge garden. Now we only have a balcony so we're going to try some container gardening.
for the research i've done it's supposed to work quite well. invest in a self watering planter and it takes a lot of maintenance out of it. as well as the plants don't develop normal soil problems, pests, etc.
plus you can get seeds made more for containers and small size but large yield. i picked up seeds this weekend for a container variety golden cherry tomato, and the billiard pack zucchini (small zucchinis that grow golf ball to tennis ball size, the billiards refers to eightball/dark green, one ball/yellow, and cue ball/light green varieties). the last step it to order some redskin or mohawk sweet pepper plants and a container to grow them in. if it goes well i'll make the containers after the first time.
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Vegetable and fruit gardening? If you are "doing it" in containers and you are new to it, an excellent book is "The Bountiful Container". I just started doing this gardening thing a few years ago, and almost everything I have ever wanted to know about gardening* has been answered by this book. Here's a link: http://www.amazon.com/McGee-Stuckeys-Bountiful-Container-Vegetables/dp/0761116230
*The only other thing I have wanted to know about gardening in containers is what to do to re-use last year's soil. I guess at what to throw in, but a recipe would be better.
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