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Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
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shannon1
jfkelly001
Lindacol
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n2o2diver
camprn
Windsor.Parker
volgrl
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Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
This is year 2 of a garden for me - and a total revamp from lessons learned and research after last year!!!
Any feedback would be great! Thanks!

Any feedback would be great! Thanks!
volgrl- Posts : 7
Join date : 2012-02-23
Location : Knoxville, tn
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???

Tell us about your plans and I'm sure you'll get plenty of help! This is a friendly, sharing, and extremely knowledgeable group. Have fun.
Windsor.Parker-
Posts : 380
Join date : 2011-12-12
Age : 76
Location : Chicago, South Shore, c. 100yds to Lake Michigan, Zone 6a
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
Hmmm.... having trouble getting to show my picture...
volgrl- Posts : 7
Join date : 2012-02-23
Location : Knoxville, tn
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???


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Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
OK, interesting! That would explain why I can see the pic and you apparently cannot!
I was on here yesterday getting great ideas and have totally revamped my layout from last year to provide me better access and light. There were some awesome suggestions on other posts.
I have a 4x4 raised bed and a 4x8 raised bed.
I guess I will try to post a graph next week for better planting feedback!
Thank you.
I was on here yesterday getting great ideas and have totally revamped my layout from last year to provide me better access and light. There were some awesome suggestions on other posts.
I have a 4x4 raised bed and a 4x8 raised bed.
I guess I will try to post a graph next week for better planting feedback!
Thank you.
volgrl- Posts : 7
Join date : 2012-02-23
Location : Knoxville, tn
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
I would try and spread out your pepper plants.
I planted mine that close together last year and they started to cross pollinate. If they are all the same kind disregard.
I planted mine that close together last year and they started to cross pollinate. If they are all the same kind disregard.
n2o2diver-
Posts : 9
Join date : 2011-05-24
Location : Zone 8
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
Is the top of the picture really south? When I saw it I thought maybe you were in Australia. LOL. If it is, I would flip the plantings. As you remember the tomatoes are like a wall of shade and would be best put on the north side. Otherwise, looks good to me.
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
Yes, South is up;) I will fix that!
I was originally concerned about light blocked from the 8 ft solid fence, but I have pulled the boxes out more & agree I should flip the tomatoes. Would it be better to put the tomato plants together?
Good point on peppers, thanks! I was planning all bell, but might do some others, so I can separate them.
Thanks so much for the help!
I was originally concerned about light blocked from the 8 ft solid fence, but I have pulled the boxes out more & agree I should flip the tomatoes. Would it be better to put the tomato plants together?
Good point on peppers, thanks! I was planning all bell, but might do some others, so I can separate them.
Thanks so much for the help!
volgrl- Posts : 7
Join date : 2012-02-23
Location : Knoxville, tn
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
volgrl,
If you're gonna grow those cukes vertically I'd also switch them to the north side of your beds.
Happy gardening!
If you're gonna grow those cukes vertically I'd also switch them to the north side of your beds.
Happy gardening!
Windsor.Parker-
Posts : 380
Join date : 2011-12-12
Age : 76
Location : Chicago, South Shore, c. 100yds to Lake Michigan, Zone 6a
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
Am I the only one who can't see the pictures? I just get the red x in a box.
Lindacol- Posts : 777
Join date : 2011-01-23
Location : Bloomington, CA
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
Lindacol wrote:Am I the only one who can't see the pictures? I just get the red x in a box.
Dunno, but I can see the picture.
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
All I can see is the box with the red x also.

jfkelly001-
Posts : 32
Join date : 2012-01-03
Age : 74
Location : Tulsa OK
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
yes i can see this one. Thank you
jfkelly001-
Posts : 32
Join date : 2012-01-03
Age : 74
Location : Tulsa OK
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
volgrl
I am kind of ashamed to say but I have yet to ever plant my garden according to any of my plans.
I am kind of ashamed to say but I have yet to ever plant my garden according to any of my plans.

shannon1- Posts : 1697
Join date : 2011-04-01
Location : zone 9a St.Johns county FL
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
Nope, always changing something because a bed is not ready or the plant in the square I want to use is still producing too well to rip up. Or
I don't take the paper plan out with me (only gonna plant a couple of squares hehe) and plant in the wrong squares.
Today I'm changing my plan because I want to get strawberry plants into the soil and the bed I originally wanted to use has no MM in it yet. Have to wait till payday to buy the rest of the composts. I have a bed that only has 1 square planted with elephant garlic and another with 2 onions left from last year. Commandeering it for strawberries.
Kay

Today I'm changing my plan because I want to get strawberry plants into the soil and the bed I originally wanted to use has no MM in it yet. Have to wait till payday to buy the rest of the composts. I have a bed that only has 1 square planted with elephant garlic and another with 2 onions left from last year. Commandeering it for strawberries.
Kay
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Altered plan...
Thank you all for your help. I have revised the plan - fixed North on top and put my tomato plants and cukes on the trellis on the North side.
Strawberries... could I grow them somewhere? I had no luck last year with them in a pot, but my daughter loves them!
Also, carrots... how deep does the bed need to be for them?
I cannot tell you all how much help this is!!! Thanks!
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Strawberries... could I grow them somewhere? I had no luck last year with them in a pot, but my daughter loves them!
Also, carrots... how deep does the bed need to be for them?
I cannot tell you all how much help this is!!! Thanks!
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volgrl- Posts : 7
Join date : 2012-02-23
Location : Knoxville, tn
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
Looks like a good plan. Having the lettuce west of the eggplant is a good idea so they can benefit from the shade.
As for strawberries, there are a few solutions. Mine was to put in a long berm (raised bed without lumber) along the south side of my raised beds. This way the old plants can be pulled out when aged and newer runners can be left to reproduce in their place. Some people plant them around trees. I have 5 dwarf fruits trees aligning our driveway so I'm going to put in some extra runners around the trees to see how that works out for me.

Above: My 16' long Strawberry bed blossoming on 6/7 last year. I got 6 qts from the thinned out beds.

Quinalts and Sequoias picked from that bed early in the season on 6/22
You want to grow them where they won't be disturbed and you can keep getting berries from the new runners on their 2nd and 3rd years. You'll never have to buy strawberry plants again. Personally, I think having a longer bed works better so you can direct the new runners to each side to establish every year, but that's me. Remember, they don't produce well til their 2nd and 3rd years. A long SFG bed would be the best solution.
As for strawberries, there are a few solutions. Mine was to put in a long berm (raised bed without lumber) along the south side of my raised beds. This way the old plants can be pulled out when aged and newer runners can be left to reproduce in their place. Some people plant them around trees. I have 5 dwarf fruits trees aligning our driveway so I'm going to put in some extra runners around the trees to see how that works out for me.

Above: My 16' long Strawberry bed blossoming on 6/7 last year. I got 6 qts from the thinned out beds.

Quinalts and Sequoias picked from that bed early in the season on 6/22
You want to grow them where they won't be disturbed and you can keep getting berries from the new runners on their 2nd and 3rd years. You'll never have to buy strawberry plants again. Personally, I think having a longer bed works better so you can direct the new runners to each side to establish every year, but that's me. Remember, they don't produce well til their 2nd and 3rd years. A long SFG bed would be the best solution.
quiltbea-
Posts : 4712
Join date : 2010-03-21
Age : 80
Location : Southwestern Maine Zone 5A
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
LOL - the lettuce eggplant planning was totally an accident - but glad it should work out well!!!
Wow - so envious of your strawberries!!! Looks like I will need to research them a bit more and see how I can incorporate a long bed into my plan!
Thank you.
Wow - so envious of your strawberries!!! Looks like I will need to research them a bit more and see how I can incorporate a long bed into my plan!

Thank you.
volgrl- Posts : 7
Join date : 2012-02-23
Location : Knoxville, tn
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
Beautiful strawberries, congratulations, wow. My Dream Crop!
llama momma
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Posts : 4921
Join date : 2010-08-20
Location : Central Ohio zone 6a
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
quiltbea wrote:Looks like a good plan. Having the lettuce west of the eggplant is a good idea so they can benefit from the shade.
Since sun travels E > W, shouldn't the eggplant be W of the lettuce?

And I'm totally drooling over your strawberries!!!
Luci Dawson-
Posts : 267
Join date : 2011-09-07
Age : 80
Location : Albuquerque, NM (7B)
Re: Help! New SFG - feedback on my plan please???
Luci.....No, Especially in TN where it gets mighty warm fast, they want that cool crop to the west of a taller one to give it shade so it won't bolt too soon. Even then they will need to shade it with cheesecloth or shade cloth when it gets warmer.
quiltbea-
Posts : 4712
Join date : 2010-03-21
Age : 80
Location : Southwestern Maine Zone 5A

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