Friday, October 19, 2012

Raised Planter Beds:

My square foot garden raised bed is doing well.  I've got a nice bunch of seedlings started in it.  I planted in it:

16 radishes, 9 spinach, 4 lettuce, 4 winter lettuce, 16 atomic red carrots, 4 swiss chard, 1 brocolli, and 4 kale.

Quite a bit for one box!  The radishes are in the upper left corner and of course they are growing fast.  I think I planted it on October 4th, and if I remember right, radishes have about 25 days harvest time.  My other box of radishes was a bit slow to grow, but they were shaded for part of the day, so maybe that's why.  This box faces directly south with nothing blocking the sun.  So this box should do well I think.  I'm planting another box, exactly the same size, next to it, to the left.

This is a picture of the planter bed that is going to be installed next to my established planter bed above.  The new planter bed is the larger one shown, and the old planter bed that was originally in this location is shown in the center of it.  This small bed is what my parents gave me about a year ago, when I first started planting.  The larger box (2' x 4') is much nicer, and it's taller. It's about 8" tall versus the 6" of the old bed.  My husband made this box for me out of fence wood that we bought from Home Depot.

Not sure what I'll plant in this new box.  I was waiting for the plantings in the small old planter to be harvested before I put the new planter down.  And that happened today.  So I'll swap out the two planters here, load the new one up with amended soil, and then grid it out and plant it.  I may wait till the first of November, and then this new planter bed will be about a month behind the already started bed.  I don't know, just a thought.

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