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Gardeners?

I posted this on the G&L board, but thought it might help to post this here as well.

I am originally from Colorado but am now living just south of Indianapolis. I am wanting to start a small vegetable garden this year as this will be my first gardening experience in this state!

Since I am new to the state, I wanted to see if you ladies have any advice for starting a garden here. What things have you had the most luck with? What should I avoid? Any other tips? I am just afraid that I am really going to mess things up since I am used to working with dry, clay-like soil from back home.

Thanks!

Re: Gardeners?

  • I can't really help you too much as I just started gardening myself and from what I understand the Indy region is a different zone than the Ft. Wayne region. However there are a few gardening books that are specific to Indiana and are really great. A book that I have fallen in love with is Secrets of companion planting: plants that help, plants that hurt  it is not specific to Indiana but it really was just a wonderful find. Sorry, I didn't help too much :(
  • Ft Wayne is in 5a and Indy is in 5b. It's still zone 5.
  • We still have clay-based soils, but the particle composition is different so we don't get as much shrink/swelling in comparison to CO. I know Purdue Extension in Marion County has a gardening resource center, so your county extension agent might be able to get information for you from them.
    Move along, nothing to see here.....
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