So we're just barely into summer, but finally seeing a functioning garden - on my own property! :lol: - has me excited for the possibilities! I am wondering what I need to do to start prepping for a fall, and maybe even a winter garden? I would like to at least get some greens going year round and figure I can make a simple hoop house from cattle panels and cover it in plastic, right? Then next year I can switch out the plastic for shade cloth and maybe extend them into summer a little longer? I do have a small green house, maybe 3x3? I admit, I don't exactly know what to do with it I originally thought seed starting when I first picked it up (I couldn't refuse the $25 asking price), but don't I need heat for that?
I don't know the logistics of it all. I am sure it's not that complicated, but having never done it before, I need to start from square 1. For my regular beds, do I wait until everything else has fizzeld out, then tear it out and plant a cover crop? Or should I use them for some greens first? Then come spring, you chop it down, right? It's a series of small raised beds so I can't till it in like I see so many say to do so I figured I could just layer it, right?
Up until this year I always dreamed of gardening, but never could actually *grow* anything... or if I did, because of the craziness that was life with preschoolers, toddlers, and babies (at the same time) it was quickly neglected to heat, drought and of course, weeds. Now that I am seeing what I actually can accomplish, I am SO EXCITED! MORE MORE MORE! :lol: I have an area out in front of the house I want to disc up and get prepped for next year... maybe eventually I can turn it into a small community garden? I know we are surrounded by poverty, I would love to have a stand offering free fresh veggies to those who would like them. DH said our whole yard used to be one huge garden with nearly an acre of row after row.
So many ideas! Just thinking "out loud" (or I guess through my keyboard)...
I don't know the logistics of it all. I am sure it's not that complicated, but having never done it before, I need to start from square 1. For my regular beds, do I wait until everything else has fizzeld out, then tear it out and plant a cover crop? Or should I use them for some greens first? Then come spring, you chop it down, right? It's a series of small raised beds so I can't till it in like I see so many say to do so I figured I could just layer it, right?
Up until this year I always dreamed of gardening, but never could actually *grow* anything... or if I did, because of the craziness that was life with preschoolers, toddlers, and babies (at the same time) it was quickly neglected to heat, drought and of course, weeds. Now that I am seeing what I actually can accomplish, I am SO EXCITED! MORE MORE MORE! :lol: I have an area out in front of the house I want to disc up and get prepped for next year... maybe eventually I can turn it into a small community garden? I know we are surrounded by poverty, I would love to have a stand offering free fresh veggies to those who would like them. DH said our whole yard used to be one huge garden with nearly an acre of row after row.
So many ideas! Just thinking "out loud" (or I guess through my keyboard)...