Seed sewing, gardening

double

We had a problem with squirrels ... Now they know the sound of a BB gun...

Mama Roneck

We have lots of rabbits, a useless dog, and 3 feet of fence around the perimeter of the raised beds

MrCookingNurse

Ugh I forgot about the neighbors dumb dog. That will have to be addressed.

canegger

Electric fences work pretty good at keeping things out you don't want there

scottc454

Did you plant the sunflower seeds in the starters?  I wouldn't do that. They don't transplant well.

MrCookingNurse

scottc454 said:

Did you plant the sunflower seeds in the starters?  I wouldn't do that. They don't transplant well.

Yes I did. Uh oh.


I have marked off a 10' x 10' square in my backyard and sprayed it with weed/grass killer. I plan on making three rectangular 2' x 8' beds 18'' deep. Spacing them with walkways in between them. Going to fill with top soil after lining wih plastic to keep weeds from growing too fast.

If the seedlings don't sprout, a local nursery has squash, zucchini, tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, eggplant, and pepper plants for sale.

Plan on outlining the whole garden with a 3-4' high wire fence for protection. Hopefully everything will be planted over next two weekedns

Mickey

No garden. These things eat all. This is inches from the house on a 15 foot high ledge.

MrCookingNurse

@mickey

She would eat well to! Got a bow??

Village Idiot

MrCookingNurse said:

@mickey She would eat well to! Got a bow??

Obama banned them.

SmokinDAWG82

Village Idiot said:

Obama banned them.

Yep, and all the stores are out of arrows!

Village Idiot

I thought he was just going to restrict it to a maximum of two arrows in a quiver, but NO !

MrCookingNurse

Ha wow.


Here are the plans.

Mickey

@<A class=Username href="http://eggheadforum.com/profile/54619/MrCookingNurse"><STRONG><FONT color=#00573d size=3>MrCookingNurse</FONT></STRONG></A>  are you sure that is not from the hospital on the latest flu strain?

Village Idiot

Good plan, but your plants are too close together.  Tomatoes grow large (especially indeterminates) and should be at least 30" apart (preferably 3').  Also, I'd give peppers at least 2'.

It is very common for people to plant too close together, because the little seedlings are tiny.  But, they grow.  Having plants too close invites disease and doesn't let them reach their full potential.

I just took a picture in my garden of a serrano plant (26") and a tomato plant (32").  The tomato plant is not full grown yet.

Just my 2¢.

gdenby

Seed germination rate depends on soil temperature. While I would suppose you will be starting next to a window, hopefully the soil will get warmed up above room temperature

The seedlings like lots of light. If direct sunlight is not on the starts long enough, the seedlings will become spindly. If that starts happening, add a grow light.

My garden is roughly 10' x 15', divided into quarters. I find that a whole quarter can be covered by a single hill of squash. Many vines can be trained up a trellis, as can the tomatoes, but then they may end up shading each other. You might want to buy a few containers for some of your plants, assuming you have room for those. Currently, I have 6 small planters that I use for plants that like the higher soil heat that planters  (and raised beds) provide.

Our cat died 2 years ago. Prior to that I did not have any animal problems. Last year I thought it was the semi-drought condition that was wiping out lots of my seedlings. That was what I thought till the morning I found the rabbit wiping out my third planting of beets. This year I will be getting some fencing.

Good luck. Food fresh from the garden can't be beat.

MrCookingNurse

That's what I needs guys!
Thanks guys. Pictures helps a lot.
Awesome ill work on spacing and see what I can come up with.

@gdenby
@villiage idiot

MrCookingNurse

just wondering if this works

henapple

growing up we staked tomatoe plants...I make cages out of fence... stronger.

Village Idiot

@mrcookingNurse

MUCH better. My only concern would be your zucchini.  Here is a picture of my garden last year.  The closest plant is zucchini.

U_tarded

You can grow things up too like zuchinni, cucumbers, pumpkins. You have to build trellises for them to climb but it will save on some of you footprint. Search vertical gardening and you will get some ideas there how to pack more into a small area

MrCookingNurse

Man, I'm far from done planning! Y'all are giving me some crazy ideas and things I haven't thought about

shtgunal3

Zucchini plants get HUGE.

Village Idiot

Zucchini is not a vine, and although you can trellis them, they may still take up more real estate than you want.  The vegetables I like to trellis are cucumbers, snow peas, and pole beans.  In my current garden, I have cucumbers and snow peas trellised.  You do need to train them to grow up and through the trellis.

U_tarded

Village Idiot said:

Zucchini is not a vine, and although you can trellis them, they may still take up more real estate than you want.  The vegetables I like to trellis are cucumbers, snow peas, and pole beans.  In my current garden, I have cucumbers and snow peas trellised.  You do need to train them to grow up and through the trellis.

I actually have only trellised what you mentioned as well. I did a lot or research on "urban" gardening when we started ours, there are some amazing things done to save space. I remember seeing zucchini on the lists but I don't like it enough to grow it and we are super limited on space.

double

I will post some of our layouts when I get home. The garden is swmbo therapy mine is range.

double

So every year the plans get drawn for crop rotation.


A lot of prep work still to happen this year!

Raspberries along the back

Strawberry Bed

tazcrash

Village Idiot said:

Zucchini is not a vine, and although you can trellis them, they may still take up more real estate than you want.  The vegetables I like to trellis are cucumbers, snow peas, and pole beans.  In my current garden, I have cucumbers and snow peas trellised.  You do need to train them to grow up and through the trellis.

My in-laws plant lettuce in the shade of the trellises.  

MrCookingNurse

Just transplanted zucchini, yellow squash, spaghetti squash, eggplant, Roma tomato, slicing tomato, habanero, jalepeno, cayenne, and sweet bells!! Jumping in with both feet!

Mama Roneck

You're going to love it when July and August roll around.

Chubbs

@MCN, sounds great. I am new to gardening but have tomatoes, cucumbers, banana pep, jal pep, bell pep, onions, rosemary, thyme, cilantro, basil and parsley going. Been fun so far.