Garden Planting: First Seeds!

Reader Contribution by Becky And Andy
Published on April 8, 2010
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This year our garden plans have really become ambitious. Like, REALLY ambitious. We are taking up the entire acre available to us and planning (Lord willing) to market a bunch of it.

Last week, in March, we planted our first row of crops. This is amazing for our climate, and our soil. Earlier, Rita and the kids came out and helped mark out six wide bed rows. We chose 3-foot wide beds in order to take advantage of growing space and utilize companion planting more thoroughly than last year. We look forward to the results of our efforts.

Yesterday we planted peas, radishes, beets, lettuce, mesclun, spinach, and cilantro. The children were a big help, with Isaac, Isaiah, and Gerret offering their planting and stick marking talents for the better part of two hours.

Below is a photo journey of yesterday’s endeavor. Here they are planting Wando and Golden Pod peas along the pea fence. (We learned shortly thereafter that the fence should have been more in the middle as reaching across three feet for the rest of the crops will prove taxing.)

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