Raised Square Foot Gardening – Atlanta, GA, May 19th, 2011
Here’s my garden located in Atlanta, GA. It consists of 3 raised vegetable garden beds following square foot gardening principals made popular by Mel Bartholomew. The soil is a third vermiculite, a third peat moss, and the last third is a combination of cow/chicken manure along with mushroom and pecan tree compost. Organic homemade compost was also administered to all seedlings when transplanted from seedling pots. All these plants were grown from seed. Here’s some great gardening links I use often. Square Foot Gardening: www.squarefootgardening.com How to make paper pots for starting seeds and seedlings: www.youtube.com A social networking website for gardeners. I use this website to write a diary and track my garden’s progress. very cool! www.myFolia.com A free web application that helps you design your own square foot garden. I can’t begin tell you how cool it is and you have to try it out! www.gardeners.com Comments and questions welcomed and encouraged. Best regards, Gordo
4 Responses to Raised Square Foot Gardening – Atlanta, GA, May 19th, 2011
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@rag4k I need to post my latest status of the veggie garden. My Sun flowers have all bloomed and look great. My lettuce is now starting to bolt to seed so I need to think of a suitable replacement for them. As for the bok choy, I think you were right; heat was the culprit and maybe some under watering. I harvested all the bok choy and it tasted wonderful! I too am now getting hit hard by rust on my beans… I think vine beans are better bush beans if you have a lot of rust. Will post again soon.
rag4k
March 15, 2012 at 4:06 am
I think the curling of the leaves on the Bok Choy was under watering. Can anyone confirm?
rag4k
March 15, 2012 at 4:24 am
@IndaEyezofDaBeholda Sorry to hear about your beans and tomatoes. I’ve been watering each square foot of beans with about 1 gallon of water a week. I water in the morning only. I did have a bunch of beans yellowing and losing leaves on the lowest part of the plants. I think I was over watering or it been a bit of Rust. We’ll see…
For fertilizer:
I used a third compost (cow and chicken manure as well as mushroom & general vegetable compost). I applied a small amount of 10-10-10 as well.
rag4k
March 15, 2012 at 5:10 am
Garden is in good shape. I lost my crop of Kentucky beans to Rust and recently 11 Tomato plants to Downey Mildew or Early Blight.
How often do you water the bush beans? Do you fertilize the bush beans? If so, what do you use.
Im not sure what is affecting your beans. Have to do a search
Most Bok Choy doesn’t like heat, look for aphids, which may also cause the cupping.
IndaEyezofDaBeholda
March 15, 2012 at 5:48 am