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Wes: 10/8/2012
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S/O of Gardening
What size bed do you have? Also, how many people do you have in your family and do you find that your bed size is adequate. Or too large or small?
ETA: Veggie garden bed!
ETA: Veggie garden bed!
116 books in 2016
my read shelf:
Wes: 10/8/2012
Re: S/O of Gardening
We have a CSA share, so our veggie garden is in addition to that. Last year (my first year doing in-the-ground veggies, so I'm really still learning) we had a 4x4 raised bed, and this year we added a second one, the same size. Last year's would've been adequate, but our peppers didn't do well at all, and I never replanted the spaces left vacant once the lettuces were done. I added the second bed so the plants would all have more room, and so we could grow more lettuce this year. Nothing made me happier than going outside to cut lettuce for my dinner salads, and I want to be able to do more of that this year.
Sugar & Spice
@SusieBW - lettuce and tomatoes are my favorite things to eat fresh. There is such a difference between garden-grown and grocery store it's amazing they have the same name.
I have a 4x4 raised bed, and a plethora of containers that grows every year for my deck. Last year I put in a 4x8 bed and filled it with baby blueberry bushes and strawberry starts -- so it wasn't productive last year. Hopefully this year we'll get some strawberries, but I think the bushes may not have survived the winter. If I have to replace them I'm going to get some bigger ones from the garden center, even though those cost so much more. I'm planning on adding another 4x4 next to my small bed and putting a cattle panel between - like this: http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/vertical/msg0622582022244.html
We also have an untouched bed on the west side of our house that was from the previous owner. I want to build it up this year, but haven't decided how to yet. Honestly, the grounds of our house were such an overgrown disaster from the previous owner, whose goal was that the neighbors wouldn't be able to see the house at all, and we're trying to do a little landscaping each year so that we can do it right and in the way we want without spending a million dollars all at once. There's just so much awful going on that we have a difficult time deciding where to even start each spring.
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We aren't doing a bed this year but will next year. Size will be determined by how much and what we get from the farmers market next door.
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