Seeds vs Plants

For most things, you can plant just seeds. For example, these do well from seed:

Cucumbers
Melons
Squash
Pumpkins
Corn
Spinach
Beets
Beans
Swiss Chard

These are almost always started as transplants:

Tomatoes
Peppers
Eggplants
Celery

These are good to start indoors to plant in a spring garden when germination is poor:
Broccoli
Cauliflower
Cabbage
Lettuce
Peas

You could plant these at the same time you plant your spring garden and then transplant if the ones you plant outside don't come up, or start them about March 1. You could also start successive plantings of lettuce inside March 1, March 15, April 1 and April 15.

My Garden Size

I have 3 raised bed gardens to plant. Here are the dimensions:

Spring Garden bed - 132" x 43" (11 feet x 3 feet 9") or 40 square feet
Summer Garden #1 - same as Spring garden
Summer Garden #2 - 209" x 38" (17 feet 5" x 3 feet 2") or 55 square feet

Then I also have these areas:

Tomato bed - 9 feet by 11 feet, or 99 square feet
Strawberry patch - 150" x 38" (12 feet 6" x 3 feet 3"), or 40 square feet
Raspberry patch - 30 feet by 3 feet, or 90 square feet

So my total garden area is: 364 square feet
Veggies - 234 square feet
Berries - 130 square feet

Publish Post

A Garden Blog

This blog is to keep track of my gardening this year! We took a gardening class and I figured if I blog about it, I might not lose all the info for next year. I've gardened for years, but never really knew what I was doing. I still don't, but I did learn a lot at the class and I think the garden should do much better this year.

Much of the info is from that class taught by Gordon Wells, Jr. The recommended varieties and harvesting tips were very useful, as well as soil prep, fertilizing and watering.