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Continue reading →: 2017 Garden Plans: Bed 4 – Peruvian GardenWe had the Peruvian Aji Limon pepper in the Pepper Garden last year, so I had the idea to do a whole garden growing traditional Peruvian vegetables. A couple of our Master Gardeners have really gotten into the theme and even went to a local Peruvian restaurant to learn from…
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Continue reading →: 2017 Garden Plans: Bed 3 – Vertical GardenWe have a dedicated “Vertical” garden again this year, featuring the cattle panel trellises. We do try to change up what we’re growing, and this year we are featuring cantaloupe, watermelon, and cucumbers. The cucumbers include a pickler, a slicer, and an English/European type. The ‘Arkansas Little Leaf’ is a…
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Continue reading →: 2017 Garden Plans: Bed 2 – Grocery GardenSeveral years ago, we did a garden called the Family of 4 Garden. We always weighed the produce harvested and assigned it a dollar value based on grocery store prices. It’s been a few years since we did that, and we are bringing this back in a revised form as…
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Continue reading →: 2017 Garden Plans: Bed 1 – Dye & Colonial GardensThis garden bed is very different from anything we’ve ever done before. We have split the garden into two sections, with one end featuring plants which can be used for dye (as well as eating or pollinators or ornamentals) and the other end will have heirlooms, with an emphasis on…
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Continue reading →: 2017 Garden Planning Begins!
We held our first planning meeting for Demo Garden 2017 last week. As always, I’m excited to see what will come from this year’s garden! This is the overall plan for 2017. In order to fit our rotations in for the tomato plants, they will be in our smaller beds 5…