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Please help me to get started! How much MM?
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Please help me to get started! How much MM?
I am new to all things gardening and am going to make an attempt at my first SFG. I am only going to do one bed this year and because of my space, it will be an 8 x 2 bed. I am trying to figure out how many bags of each...peat moss, vermiculite, and compost (I know I will have to purchase 5 different bags of this but how big should each bag be) I will need to purchase. If anyone can help me out, I would really appreciate it!
kmarie- Posts : 24
Join date : 2013-04-21
Location : Indiana Zone 5
Re: Please help me to get started! How much MM?
I am my gardens worst enemy.
RoOsTeR- Posts : 4316
Join date : 2011-10-04
Location : Colorado Front Range
Re: Please help me to get started! How much MM?
kmarie
Just read the thread that Rooster has supplied.
Happy to hear you are starting small.
Just read the thread that Rooster has supplied.
Happy to hear you are starting small.
Re: Please help me to get started! How much MM?
Thank you for that calculator! That will be really helpful.
I hope you don't mind, but I have a couple more questions...
I am trying to figure out what to plant in my garden depending on what I buy most at the grocery store. Since I am only planting one small bed to start with, I don't want to experiment too much with things I don't use regularly. I buy green beans usually about once a week so I want to plant some bean bushes. I notice in the book that you can plant 9 bushes in one of the squares, but I am wondering if that would be too many. Do you know about how many beans 9 plants would produce? Also if I decided to plant maybe only 6 bushes, would I be able to plant something else in the remaining 3 spaces, or is it best not to mix different things in the same square?
Thank you again for your help. Since I have never done any type of gardening before, this is all like a foreign language to me!
I hope you don't mind, but I have a couple more questions...
I am trying to figure out what to plant in my garden depending on what I buy most at the grocery store. Since I am only planting one small bed to start with, I don't want to experiment too much with things I don't use regularly. I buy green beans usually about once a week so I want to plant some bean bushes. I notice in the book that you can plant 9 bushes in one of the squares, but I am wondering if that would be too many. Do you know about how many beans 9 plants would produce? Also if I decided to plant maybe only 6 bushes, would I be able to plant something else in the remaining 3 spaces, or is it best not to mix different things in the same square?
Thank you again for your help. Since I have never done any type of gardening before, this is all like a foreign language to me!
kmarie- Posts : 24
Join date : 2013-04-21
Location : Indiana Zone 5
Re: Please help me to get started! How much MM?
Welcome, kmarie! I'm in Indiana, too - Demotte in the NW corner. I can't answer your question about beans as I didn't have a lot of luck with them last year, which was the first time I grew them, but wanted to say "hi".
Kate888- Posts : 199
Join date : 2012-02-11
Age : 59
Location : Demotte, Indiana - zone 5b
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