My new veggie garden PIC HEAVY

[AhBee01]

Hey it looks great,
here's an idea since you just started you can put in permanent paths and have a raised bed affect. Then weeds won't get to over whelming and the beds will be easier to plant and take care of! We used to plant in long rows and the weeds would just take over, so last year we started putting in the paths and beds, it works great, just don't over plant the beds like we did
or it gets hard to care for all them plants!!!
We planted basil around our tomatoes and the basil kept the horn worms away! Plus the basil helped with the flavor of the tomatoes!
We planted nastersium (SP) in with our cukes and squash and it helped keep the cuke beetles away!
We are looking into companion planting alot more this year, it is so helpful when you learn to keep pests away with out using chemicals.
Now if we can find away to keep the pests away that feel they can come and eat our veggies without helping with the weeding or watering! Not talking about the animals but my family that enjoy the fruits of all our labor! LOL!!!!
Enjoy your garden, we can't wait to start ours!
Brenda

 

[Beekissed]

I am going to raised-bed, no-till gardening this year also. I'm sooooo excited! I will be having 9-10, 3 ft.x 35 ft. beds with 3-4 ft. pathways. I am planting the walkways with red clover and will make them just wide enough to get a mower or garden cart through them. I just moved here last year, so this will be the first year for a real garden in this new soil! The neighbor came and plowed and the soil is just perfect....looks like I could plant dimes and grow dollars! (If only!

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I already have a good source for lots of aged horse manure...it doesn't even have a bad smell anymore, looks like really black soil. Also found a source for mulch hay and am going to mooch grass clippings from folks who don't use insecticides or weed killers. I grew a few tomatoes last year in a single, shallow row topped with the horse manure. My mother, 76 yrs. old, has been growing tomatoes all her life and she said she had never tasted tomatoes as sweet as mine. She couldn't stop eating them. Poor thing has acidic, red-clay soil at her house.

I plan to sell my excess at a roadside stand here this year, just a little experiment. Noone does that here and there is only one guy who sells veggies at all and he is set up at a gas station on the weekends. I want to get bees next year and plan to sell my eggs here also....eventually honey.

Isn't gardening all about hope? Every year the ripe anticipation of new growth, the infinite possibilities of size, color and taste of the crop and the miracle of watching a small seed become a lush and glorious food-bearing plant. Don't forget the satisfaction of neat rows, tucking in a blanket of mulch around the new plants and the pride of a job well done. Providing for the family, being part of God's miracles and the fun of sharing the food. And just a little bit of competitive pride when you drive down the road comparing your garden to other folks' gardens.

Yep, spring is here and God is sooooo good!

 

[RioLindoAz]

I have one question, does ash add vitiman to soil??? will it help plants grow better???

Can someone please answer this question before 2:00 am

 

[1acrefarm]

Ash will lower the acidity of soil just as lime will.

 

[Josie]

Ash has potassium and a bit of phosphorus, and it can help even out acidic soil.