Comments on: Garden Update

By: kmcdade

kmcdade — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:07:37 +0000

Gotta love those HOAs!

Our garden is in the front, but on the other side of the driveway. And behind a fence, although it hasn’t always been fenced off. Actually, we used to have passers-by admiring the garden before the fence was there.

By: eleanorerose

eleanorerose — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:03:43 +0000

Your garden looks fantastic!!!

My dad just got yelled at by his condo association for building a raised bed next to the front door to grow lettuce in.

Stupid condo association.
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By: Jess @OpenlyBalanced

Jess @OpenlyBalanced — Sat, 29 May 2010 19:45:53 +0000

Love it! Your peas look better than mine. That’s because mine are still in seed packages on the table. Oops!

My garden goals are modest – grow something, anything edible. (My fruit trees don’t count, since they are already producing with no effort on my part.) I think I’ll pull it off, but not if I don’t get around to planting anything!
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By: Shetha

Shetha — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:55:59 +0000

My boss and I don’t have any sunshine in our yards at home so we created a co-op garden on some of our vast un-used land at work. We have planted pretty much the same stuff — tomatoes went in yesterday. But we’ve produced enough greens that @ farmer’s market price, we’ve paid for about a 3rd of our soil (we bought 3 full yards and may still buy another yard and a half). Right now our spinach, lettuces, and cilantro are going gangbusters! Second batches of radishes and mesclun greens are in and will be harvestable in a couple of weeks

By: Gary Walter

Gary Walter — Thu, 27 May 2010 05:05:14 +0000

Nice job – I’m impressed. We’re still getting up to speed, but it appears you know what you’re doing!
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By: kmcdade

kmcdade — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:45:59 +0000

Excellent question. No weed cloth. The landlord actually created this bed (it’s the same one that had surprise pumpkins last year). The dirt was the same dirt we had gardened in previously, just moved into the raised bed.

I have one in the back yard that had weed cloth and was filled with Mel’s Mix, and it did pretty well as long as I kept it planted, but I’ve been ignoring it, so it’s weedy now, too. Also, I stupidly planted something called Corn Salad in it a couple of years ago, which keeps coming back and spreading across the yard (even outside the box).

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:41:18 +0000

Did you put weed cloth under your raised bed before you filled it with dirt? Did you fill it with dirt from your yard, or did you buy dirt to fill it with? We’re hoping that weed cloth underneath and dirt from the nursery will help control the weeds this year.