Garden plan
Here's the link to my garden plan: Garden Plan (PDF document)
I have re-drawn it several times. I loved the first version I came up with. Then I started reading about companion planting and pretty much started over from scratch. Don't know how great it is, but it is certainly much better than it was before, when I had natural "enemies" right next to each other!
Key:
- Bold black lines indicate a high-rise box.
- Blue lines indicate planned trellises.
- The purple line indicates a trellis I may have to add if the amaranth doesn't work out like I hope it will.
- Yellow squares are planted as of 4/28.
- Plot 2, left-hand side is an attempt at "Three Sisters" intercropping. I expect the savory, cilantro and radishes to get run over. They are intended as companion plants, but if I can actually harvest some too, then that's just gravy!
Planting history
Eventually this will turn into some way for me to track garden rotation (eek!) but for now, it's just a history. Not sure what the best way to do this is, though I'm tempted to make a database.
4/21 Potatoes, all squares
4/22 Carrots, 1 square
4/25 Main outdoor initial planting
4/27 Indoor planting
4/29 Planted additional peas outside
5/2 Round 2 outdoor planting: Kohlrabi, Rapini, Pak Choi, Swiss Chard, Spring onion (in squares to be inhabited by basil), Lettuce.
5/3 Additional Summer Savory after squirrels dug up that square.
5/8 Round 3 outdoor planting: Carrot, Rapini, Pak Choi, Swiss Chard, Nasturtium in Bed 1. Bed 2: Cilantro, Summer Savory, Kohlrabi, and additional doubling up on Squashes, Corn, Beans, Nasturtiums, Peas, Cukes, and Watermelon. (I am getting desperate!)
5/12 Nasturtiums up
5/13 First cover-up of potatoes
5/15 Christmas pole limas up; planted more peas because only one up and no sign of any others!
5/16 Second cover-up of potatoes. Cherokee pole beans and cukes up. Did a little digging and the peas should soon be up. Pepper plants... do I spy a sprout? Transplanted cabbage and basil, even though the plants are very small, just seed leaves. Spread more coffee, hit the tomatoes and pepper planting areas with some broken up Tums.
