In early April we began planting cool weather seeds and transplanting cool weather seedlings. We have a 70×130 garden with 16 garden plots about 5ft. wide and 50ft. long. Before the gardening season I fenced the garden off with light duty U-posts and 4ft. tall chicken wire to keep our free range chickens out. Once our cool weather garden is done producing, I may set our chickens loose in there during the day to eat what remains and fertilize the soil for next year. I am not sure if I will be planting a fall garden yet simply due to time restraints with harvesting and canning, about the time the fall garden would have to be planted. Considering this is our first year, I am going to take a wait-and-see approach and if we don’t get a fall garden in, that can be a goal for next year.
Our transplants are doing awesome, and the seeds we planted directly are sprouting and doing great. Here is what is growing:
- Onions
- Garlic
- Broccoli
- Cauliflower
- Cabbage
- Wheat
- Quinoa
- Strawberries
- Raspberry bushes
- Carrots
- Beets
- Peas
- White & Red Potatoes
- Celery
- Lettuces, spinach, kale
- Turnips
- Radishes
I could be forgetting something!