I’m a SAHM and had a pretty tight budget for gardening this year, but it’s important to me for my toddler and I to experience growing our own vegetables and spending more time outside! This is one month progress in southwestern Wisconsin- I may have planted a bit early but everything is growing really well! Trying square foot method. 5 different tomatoes, yellow wax beans, green beans (both bush), yellow squash, basil, sage, snapdragons, dill, and marigold. I have another area of our yard that’s not a raised bed, I just amended the native soil with some composted manure, growing peas, cucumbers, zucchini, peppers, eggplants, Brussels sprouts, and spaghetti squash but I didn’t get a before pic.
I’m a bit concerned my beans won’t get enough sunlight as I planted them between tomatoes and squash which has basically shaded the whole area with leaves already.
by Ancient-Track4014
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Nice! Looks great so far
How big is the entire bed? Are your tomatoes determinate or indeterminate?
Looks like you’ve referenced the square foot gardener… excellent starting point. My best advice is take tons of pictures, they will help you improve upon your game every year as you get into planting times and what worked and what didn’t. Best of luck!
I think you are doing great! Looks wonderful and I applaud your rationale. That’s a really good outcome so far I think you’re gonna get some good food. Keep up the good work!
That’s one of the challenges with the square foot garden method, it’s just really tight spacing and in my opinion takes an expert gardener with excellent conditions and leaves little margin for error. In the scheme of things though, it’s to be expected that some things don’t thrive and we learn some nuances or abject lessons that we can apply to future years. Good luck with the rest of the season!
Great job! So exciting to see early growth isn’t it?
Looks great! I have 4 little ones (humans, not beds) myself, and it was also important to me as well. I encourage you to get them digging. I thought it was important they see what’s behind growing food, respect that and gain a sense of the seasonality of it.
That being said I’m not one to refuse fresh lime in a winter cocktail either😉
I don’t see any black thumbs, just a beautiful garden making beautiful progress!