We are planning our garden for this 2007 Growing Season. I have 4 Red Pepper (Sweet Bell) plants to install, but still need to get the actual garden space ready.
I have some peat starter kits to start the rest of my garden from seed. I hope to get those going today. I’ll make a list of what I’m doing and then also post updates as things progress.
We were planning on having 4 to 6 4×4 raised garden beds, and DH bought a bunch of landscape timbers from HomeDepot this morning to get started on the project this week … but when he got here, delighted with them I was, at first, but then saw they are pressure treated and that’s not the “old” way, but it’s still not “organic” so … back to HomeDepot they went.
We are now considering using Red Cedar posts that they have, pricer –but a better solution. 🙂
Our process for the garden will be to take off the grassy layer, use the Mantis tiller we have to loosen our clay “soil” 😉 and then put some organic garden soil on top with the posts two-high surrounding the raised-ish bed. The posts are 5 ft. high, so that will make the squares we have bigger than we originally had planned, but that’s all part of it, being flexible!
We’ll have about 2 ft. between each of the squares, making first one or two, then more as needed, preferably at least four, but maybe six eventually. We might put down a pea stone surface in the 2 ft. space, with landscape fabric beneath. We have the fabric, but not the pea stone, yet.
I will have green beans on corners climbing bamboo “teepees” … and then the other veggies will go in when they are ready to be transplanted. Some of the seeds I got are “organic” but not all of them are, the others being just plain conventional. I’ll try to recall what I picked out: snow peas, peas, carrots, lettuce, … I’m blanking out now. I had many things in mind and couldn’t find representitives for everything. I’ll see what Whole Foods Market has next time we go, they had a nice selection of Organic seeds last time we were there, but I didn’t get any, unfortunately.