Seed Exchange!

[mousme]

I'm going to the seed exchange on Sunday with ai731! Whee!

The problem is that I have WAY more garden ideas than I actually have room in the garden. Uh, oops?

Part of me is squeeing and declaring "I want lettuce and carrots and tomatoes and peppers and onions and ooh! maybe I should try broccoli again, and what about chives and leeks and potatoes and of course I'll need several varieties of squash and zucchini and I wonder if cucumbers can grow in this climate and..."

The other part of me is trying desperately to put on the brakes: "Uh, yeah. Where exactly were you planning to plant all that?"

Eesh.

Comments

[mellybean71.livejournal.com]

What about window boxes for the herbs and smaller stuff? Can you plant stuff against the fence or shed and get it to grow up it?

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

You have a roof, right? ^_^

[zercool.livejournal.com]

Go talk garden stuff with talkingmute12, more commonly known as my Other Half. She's already got two flats started and is plotting out dozens more. :)

[talkingmute12.livejournal.com]

Seed exchange?!

[talkingmute12.livejournal.com]

all right, now that I'm not being rung for...

I NEED DETAILS!!!!!

[chasingthenuns.livejournal.com]

cucumbers can grow up a trellis or fence; it saves a lot of space to do it this way. as far as your climate i have no idea though. lettuce is really good to grow in pots; less bunnies eating it and less dirt. also, you need less tomato plants than you think you do. i learn that the hard way every year.

Where are you planning to plant all that?

[kiwano.livejournal.com]

Why, you interplant them, of course. Just look at your vegetables, and which of them grow predominantly above-ground as opposed to below-ground, what are their growing seasons, which are nitrogen givers vs. takers. Forget putting on the brakes; look into good sets of companion plants, and laugh shamelessly at the part of yourself that would have set aside 3 distinct plots for corn, beans, and squash (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Sisters_(agriculture)).

mirandaaskew's front garden is all of maybe 2' by 6', and supports plants which can yield (depending on the weather) somewhere in the neighbourhood of a bushel of tomatoes, 3-4 butternut squash, some unestimated quantity of garlic, chives, (black) mustard, savory/oregano, and I'm sure a few other plants that I'm forgetting.