Wednesday, May 27, 2009



This year we built what we are calling our salad table garden. The hopes is that we will bring this garden inside to the basement this fall and hopefully under two basic shop lights with 40 fluorescent bulbs we will be able to continue to grow fresh greens. Usually we purchase the clam shells of organic greens at around $3.29 from our local grocery store. So far we've been able to cut two full clam shells of salad greens. We've a rotating system in this small garden. You'll see carrots which will take a couple of months and then the other three sections will be rotated. Once once section has been completely harvested then we'll replant it and with some luck the other section will be ready to begin cutting. When we cut the greens we just take what we need for a day or two. I just take a pair of scissors randomly cutting the larger pieces. We also have spinach coming up in another part of the garden which was planted a little late. Our raised bed garden has been in for several years and I've just come across Mel Barthol0mews, Square Foot Gardening book and have just begun to incorporate his ideas and techniques into our existing garden. You can see here I've used a nylon string to separate the sections into nearly one foot square areas. More on using the square foot approach later.

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