Last year I worked with my hubby on our garden, he has always been the garden person in our family. I just went along with it...
Suddenly, I am the gardener. This year it is my baby! I researched and have totally made it my own. Instead of row gardening like we usually do, I am trying out square foot gardening.
Row gardens are plants in rows, with a walkway typically between each row, kind of like a farmer has.
Square foot gardening is more of a grid-type of garden, usually used in raised beds, but ours are still in-ground. You plant according to the square foot, anywhere from 1-9 plants per square foot. You can fit in a lot of produce in a smaller space that way.
We are growing:
tomatoes (staking them and pruning them to a single stalk): cherry, roma, and slicers.
herbs: parsley, oregano, cilantro, sage, thyme, rosemary, basil
cucumber
squash: zucchini, summer squash
beets, carrots, onions, radishes
peppers: mini red, green bell, and jalepeno
leaf lettuce
broccoli
watermelon
They are growing wonderfully after a cold spring and delayed planting. We had a lot of wind so I couldn't acclimate them from indoors to outdoors, and they suffered for a bit after they were planted outdoors, but now a few weeks later, they are growing well!
