Our Raised Bed Gardens are growing!

By Henrietta, on June 6th, 2011%   Peeps (7)
radish seedlings

I keep meaning to post updates on how well our raised bed gardens are doing, but by the time I get around to it, they’ve grown again! It’s been almost a month since we filled them with manure, and about three weeks since we started planting the seeds and plants. With the hot humid temperatures and rainy weather . . . → Read More: Our Raised Bed Gardens are growing!

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Filling our raised bed gardens with horse manure

By Henrietta, on May 12th, 2011%   Peeps (2)
raised bed garden manure

Last Saturday we finally located a wonderful source of material to fill our raised beds with. My aunt and uncle sent me to a nice man who has been composting his horse manure for over twenty years! We hooked on to the trailer and drove the 10 miles out to his farm to load up.

We truly couldn’t have found a . . . → Read More: Filling our raised bed gardens with horse manure

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My raised bed Garden Plan - 2011

By Henrietta, on May 2nd, 2011%   Peeps (4)
raised bed plan

Since this is the first year that we are trying the Square foot gardening method in our new raised beds, I wanted to make sure that I had a good plan in place.  Usually I graph out our large gardens on graph paper in long rows of vegetables. Using this new method, each square . . . → Read More: My raised bed Garden Plan – 2011

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Building raised bed gardens for our veggies!

By Henrietta, on April 30th, 2011%   Peeps (9)
gardening by the foot raised bed

This year was going to be the year that I said the heck with it and didn’t have a garden. That lasted about 2 weeks then I knew I was just kidding myself! A garden is a MUST for us! We need to be able to eat fresh green onions, cherry tomatoes, and have plants to tend over the summer. What we knew . . . → Read More: Building raised bed gardens for our veggies!

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