Let's go to bed
This is one of the two new raised beds, all gridded out for "square foot" gardening. The first two rows on the left have now been planted, half and half with early and late sweet corn. The plan is to plant the next three pairs of rows with the same mix, two weeks apart, for the next month and a half. Hopefully that equates to fresh sweet corn for most of the late summer and early fall!
Yours in experimentation.
5 comments:
I hope it turns out for you! Fresh corn is awesome. I've never even thought about attempting it here.
Meghann,
We shall see. The location of this bed isn't ideal - at least not until I cut down all the ailing pine trees that shade it from morning sun. But I DO want to keep working at growing more and more of what I can here, and am really hoping at least some of the corn hits. Especially because it will be one of the few things out of the garden that the whole house can be enthusiastic about!
Yeah, corn is a huge hit around here too. And now you have me pining for another raised bed. Part of our yard gets sun pretty much all day.
what timing... just this Monday I put together something similar; not as large though. Ours is probably a 5x2 bed and I doubled up timbers (they were on sale cheap but it probably would have been cheaper to use 2x6s wouldn't it?) along with a smaller bed of the left-over timbers.
Planted all sorts of stuff (okra, cucumber, tomato, lettuce, some herbs, etc. but no corn). Hopefully it gets enough light - I built it specifically 5x2 because that's about the only place in our entire yard that gets sun *most* of the day.
Gotta love trees.
Chris,
Those are actually 2x10s of treated lumber, a little under $7/ea. before tax for 8' lengths.
I use timbers on the beds on the side of the house where they are visible from the street, but don't worry so much about looks in the backyard. :o)
Right now I have raised beds all down the south side of the house, plus four in the backyard (two of those are somewhat shaded and don't do as well). All told, I think I am around 300 sq. ft. of garden space now.
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