Planning My Fall Garden
This summer I planted a garden using the Square Foot Gardening technique. Based on square foot gardening, you can get higher yields from smaller areas, which is great for people who don’t have a lot of space. I learned a few lessons this summer over the course of gardening season, number one being: don’t get too greedy and try to grow one of everything. While this works in theory, the practical result is that you never have quite enough to make a solid meal. This led to my husband calling my garden the “Snack Patch”. There were always enough peas, strawberries and tomatoes for me to eat while pulling weeds, etc. but there was never enough to fix dinner with.
This fall I am going to try to not have that problem by planting more plants with a little less variety. This is going to be hard, because I want to grow everything, but I only have 3 4×4 beds.
Here is what I am thinking for this fall/winter:
Winter Squash, Broccoli, Greens, Carrots, Potatoes, Spinach
I am using this Alabama Extension Service publication as my guide. I have found the extension service publications to be great local sources of information, and every state has one. For instance, let’s say I am thinking of growing vegetables in Minnesota…
Here is the Minnesota Extension Service guide to vegetables. That was easy!
