Quotes About Gardening

HOW MUCH ROOM? Plants Per Square Foot Plants Per Two Square Feet Gourds (1) Melons (1) Tomatoes (1) Pumpkins (1) Cucumbers (2) Summer Squash (1) Pole Beans (8) Watermelon (1) Winter Squash (1)

Your vertical frame should be installed outside the box, so it sits on the ground. Aside from driving the concrete reinforcing bars (rebar) into the ground, and slipping the conduit over them, you could also attach the vertical frame to your box with pipe clamps on the side. This would give them even more stability.

To make the vertical frame extra strong for watermelons, squash, and pumpkins, drive a steel fence post into the ground first instead of the rebar. A fence post can be just the shortest 3-foot tall size. Once the fence post is in the ground, then the conduit is attached to it with three pipe clamps. The whole frame then becomes so strong that it will hold up any weight no matter how high you go.

So, in summary, if plants should be thinned to 12 inches apart, plant one per square foot. If plants should be thinned to 6 inches apart, plant four per square foot. If plants should be thinned to 4 inches apart then you can grow nine within the space of that 1 square foot. If plants are thinned to 3 inches apart, you can grow sixteen in that same square foot. Doesn't it all make sense and seem easy enough?

TEN MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE ORIGINAL SQUARE FOOT GARDEN METHOD 1. Location—Close to the House 2. Direction—Up, Not Down 3. Soil—Mel's Mix 4. Box Depth—Only 6 Inches Deep 5. No Fertilizer—You Don't Need It 6. Easy Access—Above the Ground 7. The Aisles—Comfortable Width 8. The Grids—Prominent and Permanent 9. Novel Idea—Don't Waste Seeds 10. Expanded Opportunities—Tabletop Gardens

Cradle to Cradle is like good gardening; it is not about "saving" the planet but about learning to thrive on it.

Professor Sprout

Pomona Sprout

The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.

There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.

Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.

The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

I'm not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they'd come up sliced.

These vines will be blooming by summer don't you remember? It's just the bones of the garden you're looking at right now." I thought of the trumpet vine and honeysuckle that would green and flower; the jasmine that would sweeten the air, its perfume drifting in the windows of our home.

I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.

A neighbor with a green thumb and no yard. That's all. Would this be the first of many awakenings?

Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.

I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.

If you can't have love in your life, you might as well have home-grown basil.

Femeile iubesc foarte mult florile, da, e o ocupa?ie foarte pl?cut?!

I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.