It is planning time again and the garden will finally attain the same perfection it had this time last year. There have been a few lessons to make it even more perfect. No potatoes this year. They are too cheap and my garden just doesn’t seem to produce them well. They require a loose high acid soil. A deer fence will be a necessity even though I hate it for two reasons. 1st I think the deer need to eat too. They just ate too much this year. 2nd it will be ugly.
Over ½ of the garden will be in raised beds this year. That simplifies the planning in some ways. No measuring and calculating in that part of the garden. Just plan for so many row feet of each thing; and figure out how to maximize the daylight. The soil throughout the garden will be much more uniform now. It will still need testing. In some ways it will be more complicated. In order to really take advantage of the space a lot more companion planting will be needed.
A lot of the items will be vertical this year as they were last year. That will be easier with the raised beds; but planning for available sunlight will be harder. Planning the garden needs to be finished before planting in the greenhouse begins. Last year was terrible for the greenhouse. This year will have to be better. An earlier start date will be used and twice the needed plants will be started. The excess can be given away or used to infill if something happens to the plant in the garden.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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