PUT SOME SEEDLINGS IN THE GROUND TODAY
Got the seedlings in the ground I was showing off this weekend in one of my posts. Ended up planting Broccoli, Cabbage, Red Cabbage, Kale, Romaine Lettuce, Lettuce Bibb, Spinach and Swiss Chard.
Planting in these beds was fairly simple. First I drew out a grid with my Hori Hori. I'm kind of using a square foot gardening method to plant these out.
With the Hori Hori being 13 in long I used it as my measurement when creating the grid.
The native soil in this field is quite Sandy. I dug down till getting to the native soil. Then threw a handful of potting soil in the hole. You could also use compost.
Next was putting the seedling in the hole with another handful of compost or potting soil.
I tried to space each plant about 1 foot away from each other. It's easier to add another plant if you have a gap then trying to thin plants out without killing them.
Didn't plant the same crop all together. Planting different types of crops together AKA companion planting is a good idea. For instance if a cabbage bug comes in it will wipe out a whole bed of cabbage but if they are spread out and the bug can't find the next cabbage plant you have a better chance of catching the problem and fixing it before they destroy everything.
We had enough seedlings to do 5 beds this way. These beds are about 10 ft long and three to four foot wide. They will hold about 30 plants using the square foot garden method.
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When I did a post earlier this year about rotating garden beds, I was reading about the square foot planting method. I wish I had more room for my garden to be able to do this; alas, I will have most of my garden in containers and buckets.
Square foot gardening is a pretty cool Technic I enjoy using it.
Where I live (near Austin Texas) we sow broccoli seed in the hottest part of August. The seedlings emerge in sometimes just a day, and the bright light helps them grow straight. Then, if they survive the 100 degree F/ 38 degree C heat for a couple of weeks, they flourish in cooler weather. They actually taste wonderful if they are slightly touched by the first frost. It brings out sweetness.
Great tip! I love growing broccoli in the fall as well.
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Me encanta plantar, pero tengo poco espacio, y las tengo en macetas. buen Post.
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Make sure your container has good soil and drainage, which means plenty of compost! As Hometalk member The Black Thumb Gardener says, ‘a gardener with no compost is no gardener at all’. Composting is easy, just save your food waste, especially egg shells, coffee grinds, and apple cores! Creating good drainage is also very manageable. Ensure that your container garden has holes in the bottom, and then line the bottom of the container with a layer of rocks.
Yep you stole it from Huffpo, you moron: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/hometalk/the-8-best-gardening-tips_b_5563873.html
Did you just c&p this comment from someone else on another post, as you posted it almost instantly and it doesn't have anything to do with the subject as HOPfarm isn't container gardening? I smell plagarism.
yea i just c&p because i was thinking may be this information is useful for hopfarmnc as i could not see any container in photos.
You realize anyone can look at your comments and see that you comment nothing but rapid fire plagarized material in too short a time frame to read any of the articles you comment on?
yes i do realize my mistake and appologize for doing so
please remove downvoted, as i already got enough. i will be careful in future.
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Yeah these are not container Gardens unless you're thinking of the world as the container then that would make us the compost. LOL