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Garden Green
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Garden Green

March 13, 2012March 16, 2023 3 comments

Of course after a long and brown winter, I’m always excited to get out and put some color in my yard. Every year my attempts find varying degrees of failure! LOL. Oh well, it’s March, and that means I’m thinking about starting again!

This year, in addition to the flower gardens I dream about, I’m ready for the practical application of a vegetable garden. Last fall we finally cleared out the “garden” corner of our yard – the space designated for the “some day,” that has been piled with wood/junk/construction material for the past five years. Last Friday, with fine weather forcasted for the weekend, I conned Wyatt into coming home early from work so we could spend the weekend building garden boxes.

We built five –

2 4×4’s
2 4×8’s
1 4×12

Last year we heard of the concept of “square foot gardening” – where you section off your garden by square foot, and each square holds a plant. Sounds genius/easy/impressive, and since I have absolutely no experience in gardening, I am willing to try anything.

So I sectioned my garden off by square foot (in plan only so far). Do you know how many square feet I have? 140 Square Feet. That’s a lot of plants. (And my mother in law almost cried when I made my garden so small. Seriously).

Well, today I  made my plan for what to plant and where. I did research about what plants/varieties do the best in Utah, as well as what plants to put by each other so that everything should maximize it’s potential.

I’ve got a plan.

Now I need dirt – to fill up my boxes. And seed – to plant.

And then a long summer to grow my produce.

And I LOVE long summers.

 

21 Corn Plants
2 Zucchini
12 Pole Bean Plants
96 Carrots
2 Summer Squash
6 Pepper Plants
4 Cucumber Plants
2 Eggplants
2 Early Girl Tomato Plants
2 Big Boy Tomato Plants
1 Roma Tomato Plant
1 Cherry Tomato Plant
18 Yellow Onions
18 Red Onions
A Kajillion Green Onions
3 Broccoli
4 Pumpkins/Winter Squash
Lots of Cilantro
Lots of Basil
Lots of Parsley
And the whole thing lined with Petunias, Marigolds (which are theoretically good snail repellants) and Sunflowers.

 

And what about the excess produce? Well, I will can salsa if I can – and we will have summer barbeques with our yummies. And I love zucchini bread and earth bread. And then my ward always has a farmers market (where we give our produce, not sell) where we can all share our produce at the end of the summer, so I know it won’t go to waste.

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3 comments

  1. Julie Brock says:
    March 14, 2012 at 5:44 am

    Sounds great!

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  2. Brynn says:
    March 19, 2012 at 12:13 pm

    Hooray!!! We’re in the planning stage now…our kitchen is getting redone at the moment, so the yard will have to wait another couple of weeks, but I LOVE planting the garden with the kids! It is wonderful! We didn’t get to planting the early stuff, but there’s still time…I need to not get all uptight about it because I guess I did just have a baby…;) I’m excited to see your garden!

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    1. andrea christensen says:
      March 20, 2012 at 3:31 pm

      Congratulations on a new kitchen Brynn! That’s great! I haven’t planted yet either. Maybe (hopefully) this weekend! Good luck on your garden. We’ll have to plan barbeques with all our produce! 😀

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