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I have decided that the planting density according to the charts is just too close. Last year I had so much growth that it was like a jungle to try to pick anything. Cleaning out the garden in fall I found that I missed picking a lot of beans and peas because I could not find them. I am...

You can start them in most anything; newspaper pots, the plastic 6 packs from last year, dixie cups, ... biggest thing is to make sure it is sterile. Bake the soil or use store bought soiless seed starter mix. I just figured out too late that I didn't soak my seed starting tray in enough...

I don't have my book handy right now, but I found a site online that has a chart of spacing for squarefoot gardening. http://faq.gardenweb.com/faq/lists/sqfoot/2003112433023631.html According to that chart - you would plant 1 corn plant per square. Corn needs a spacing of 12" per plant...

I am only dabbling in gardening, so to speak. I am still trying to figure out the growing season and climate here in WYoming at 7500 feet. Went from northern Wis. with 36" of rain to the high mountain desert with 12" of rain per year. My biggest problems here are soil and animals. The soil...

Now you guys have me missing Wisconsin. Its been 5 years, I thought I had outgrown that. Of course our extreamely dry spring is not helping at all, this is usually our green season. By mid-summer we are all dried up and brown. All that green hurts my eyes!

I never thought of window screening ... I bet that would work. And if I fitted it correctly, it would possibly keep the critters from digging out the soil also. I'll have to try that out, thanks for the suggestion.

If you are using potting mix in your containers, is there anything you do to keep the mix from blowing out? I have been trying to grow plants in containers, but the potting mix keeps blowing away! I end up with the poor plants sticking out of the ground 3 inches.

Hey squarefoot gardeners - I need some advice I have mushrooms growing in the soil in my raised bed squarefoot garden. They have just popped up this spring, in the last couple of weeks. I have been using oak lathe for my grids since last spring. The mushrooms seem to be growing from the...

Here are pic's of three of my tomato plants in the little 4x8 growhouse DH made for me. I counted 48 little tomatos growing on the six plants that I have in there. Here is a close-up of the Roma tomato plant - I had all three labeled as Roma's, but this is the only one that produced the Roma...

Quote: That will be a very interesting comparison. How are your potatos doing? Have you harvested any yet? Yeah, I know this was from page #4 and you'all have forgotten all about the conversation. The post from 6chickens in St. Charles reminded me about it. I planted three potato bags...

I have my potatoes planted in "Potato Bags" that I made. Basically, it is a 18' diameter bag of landscape fabric that I put into a cylinder of machine fabric to keep the gophers out. One bag got planted at the beginning of June, the plants in that bag are turning yellow and dropping leaves. I...

KRCOTE: love the set-up. Is that table portable or do you leave it there all the time? The gardens look incredible, it all makes me jealous of everyone living somewhere where things grow. Oh well, I can try again next year. DH and I are working hard this summer to get garden stuff set-up...

Quote: Your hubby did a great job. nice window inserts too. Might want to switch to milk jugs for your solar water heating system. They will fill the space between the inside bed and the outside wall better and can be stacked. My experience this spring was that all the milk jugs got too...

Here are pictures of my Squarefoot gardening "growhouse" that my husband built for me. It is almost 5' x 8'. The raised bed inside is 3.5' by 7' and 8 inches deep. The top is 1/2" machine fabric covered with greenhouse plastic and screwed in place. It faces south, mostly. All the side panels...

Hey you gardeners out there, any idea what would cut the tops off of my onions. Yesterday, the onions were 4" tall, now they are all cut off alittle above the ground. (all 6 of them)

Quote: Wow, sweet corn fresh from the field ... Haven't had that in 5 years ... I used to eat it raw as a treat back in WI, but it had to be the super sweet and still warm from the sun. It's a trick I learned from my uncle, I always got the first sweet corn of the season that way.

You guy's make me so jealous with your gardens. Look at that growth Love the rustic timber raised beds! I am having such a time trying to get things to grow, being almost a mile and a half high probably isn't helping. We have been so cold all spring, and now, suddenly, we are at 85+...