02-23-2021, 09:43 PM
With this milder winter with little snow its been hard not to think about next year's garden. We have several projects set to work on this year:
1. Recently picked up a greenhouse that is like ours that was still in its box at a decent price. Due to the space we have available, our plan is to use it to extend the greenhouse we already have as there's not enough room to just put 2 full sized ones so this will just be an added on space so we'll need to be bit creative on how to downsize it to fit within the space we have - but should be doable.
2. We're not doing a straw bale garden this year instead we are going to try planting that area using those tree-sized pots nurseries use. We picked some up last fall from the nursery at great price for this experiment. The hope is that we can use these which may allow us to extend our growing season by moving them into the garage in fall to protect them early frosts. We experimented with using these pots last year and the tomatoes we grew in them did really well, so fingers crossed on this new adventure.
3. Not growing sweet potatoes this year - it was fun to do last year but didn't produce like we hoped it would. So the large grow box we made for the sweet potatoes will be planted with - we think - bell peppers.
4. Cantaloupe did well, but the small watermelons didn't, so both those planters will be planted with only the cantaloupe.
5. Found a neat way to make strawberry planters using pallets (Link)- so we'll be converting over our raised bed planter, using all the plants we can harvest from it and maybe buy a few more to add into these new planters - we'll just see how well this plan works out for us this year.
Looks to be a fun gardening year with several experiments to see how well they all work out.
1. Recently picked up a greenhouse that is like ours that was still in its box at a decent price. Due to the space we have available, our plan is to use it to extend the greenhouse we already have as there's not enough room to just put 2 full sized ones so this will just be an added on space so we'll need to be bit creative on how to downsize it to fit within the space we have - but should be doable.
2. We're not doing a straw bale garden this year instead we are going to try planting that area using those tree-sized pots nurseries use. We picked some up last fall from the nursery at great price for this experiment. The hope is that we can use these which may allow us to extend our growing season by moving them into the garage in fall to protect them early frosts. We experimented with using these pots last year and the tomatoes we grew in them did really well, so fingers crossed on this new adventure.
3. Not growing sweet potatoes this year - it was fun to do last year but didn't produce like we hoped it would. So the large grow box we made for the sweet potatoes will be planted with - we think - bell peppers.
4. Cantaloupe did well, but the small watermelons didn't, so both those planters will be planted with only the cantaloupe.
5. Found a neat way to make strawberry planters using pallets (Link)- so we'll be converting over our raised bed planter, using all the plants we can harvest from it and maybe buy a few more to add into these new planters - we'll just see how well this plan works out for us this year.
Looks to be a fun gardening year with several experiments to see how well they all work out.