This past summer I was very excited to start a garden. I dig up a patch of the lawn and planted lettuce, broccoli, and peas. I figured I would start off small. Everything started to grow and I thought I was doing really well until we had some deer in the neighborhood that ate everything. My broccoli plants were about a foot high one day and chomped down to two inches the next. I thought some might grow back, but they never did. I pulled out the remains of my plants and decided to plant some tomato plants since I heard they were easy and deer won’t eat them. I was thrilled to see that the plants began growing tiny little green tomatoes pretty quickly. They got really big really fast, but then they never turned red. They were still green and hard as rocks. Its October and getting cold, and none of them have turned red and some have even started to rot. I have no idea what happened, but I am now determined to grow something, anything next spring.
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1. Size
Currently the garden measures 4’X 8.5’
I can slightly more than double the length: Will build it at 4’ X 17.5’ I could probably get another 6”, but want to leave room at the end.
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This will happen next spring at this point, but I have to do a few things to get ready first…
1. Determine the size of my garden. (I already have the location planned.)
2. Pick my vegetables! So far, I’d like: Potatoes, Carrots, and Peas.
3. Read when I need to plan the veggies I pick and how far apart to plant them from eachother.
Should be fun :)
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Mr 12 did a great job planting
- the strawberries
- the lettuces
- the onions
- the asparagus
- the red potatoes
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I planted a small 10 X 10 plot near my shop seen here:
And while I am replanting my terrace garden and the fact I ran out of garden room I planted some in my terraced garden and will replace with perennials as the year progresses. seen here:
