SFG dilema

[obsessed]

So I am sitting here trying to plan my garden. I have to hurry spring is like a few weeks from now! But most of what I want to grow seems to be vining stuff. Like cukes, tomatoes, squash, beans, watermelon.... Dang..... How am I going to work the logisitcs of the garden out. I am going to have to build a ton of trealis and then what about shading..... Oh the anxiety the anxiety... I think I am going through gardening withdrawl.

I have taken to using a spreadsheet and I am totally liking it....

 

[lesa]

Last year, I planned and planned- drew diagrams, etc etc... Spring came and I started the planting and like magic it all worked out. I can never make it quite right on paper! That being said, all the planning and imagining gets me that much closer to spring!!! Depending on how much room you have, all those plants will gladly spread on the ground- they don't need to go up, unless you want them to...bush beans, not pole beans. Happy dreaming!

 

[ducks4you]

Don't you wish you could draw something like this?:
http://sustainableeats.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/front-yard-garden-plans.jpg
Actually, I've expanded my garden to include beds around my cement cistern top, the west and south sides of my garage (detached, of course),and next year, I'll be planting vining plants along some of my fence lines, even though I'll have to sacrifice some fruits to the horses!

Your post started me thinking about how Europeans with limited lawn space grow their vegetables in beds around the yard, instead of grass and flowers. what'cha think?

 

[obsessed]

I have three 8 x4 raised beds with three 4x4 beds. I am trying to do some sfg but I know know it looks like using the number given in the Book my garden is going to really productive or really cramped. My numbers end up with

H.Pepp 16
Eggplant 4
S.Pepp 16
Cuke 4
Tomatillo 6
Tomato 16
Ch.tomato 5
Basil 3
Marigold 3
Beans 8
Squash 4


I am not trying to waste any space but dang that seems cramped. If I have any faliures with seed germination of killing of random seedlings then I will plant hot peppers because they only take up one square. The peppers/eggplants will stay untill the fall (Early December). The tomatoes I am going to try to keep till Dec but they just get to big. Actually most of these will stop for the heat of summer but continue on into the fall.

 

[journey11]

Don't you wish you could draw something like this?:
http://sustainableeats.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/front-yard-garden-plans.jpg
Actually, I've expanded my garden to include beds around my cement cistern top, the west and south sides of my garage (detached, of course),and next year, I'll be planting vining plants along some of my fence lines, even though I'll have to sacrifice some fruits to the horses!

Your post started me thinking about how Europeans with limited lawn space grow their vegetables in beds around the yard, instead of grass and flowers. what'cha think?

Wow, that is elaborate!

I tried graphing my yard once for landscaping reasons. Laid it aside and never finished (and haven't done much of the landscaping yet either!) I think though, with veggies, the calculations would give me a headache. I just mark my rows and measure the distance from plant to plant and end up with what I can fit.

 

[framing fowl]

bush beans, not pole beans. Happy dreaming!

Hey y'all! I wandered over here from Sufficient Self. I'm doing my first SF garden this year (converting my existing inground beds into this method) and had this very question last night as I was poring over my seed catalogs. I was thinking pole beans though so they could go up the trellis?

Any other hints or tips to a newbie would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Hattie the Hen]

I think Catalina's raised vegetable beds are wonderful & she seems to have solved the vining plants problem with her home made supports for her walls of veggies. Take a look

http://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=25175&p=1

** You can follow her raised beds through the last growing season. She is a wonderful gardener etc, etc, etc !!! I hope she is sitting & planning the next season & she will take photos of that too.


:rose Hattie :rose