Hello Everyone!
I just found this website a few days ago and many of you seem to love gardening and have the knowledge from years of experience. I need your HELP! I just discovered gardening this last year and absolutely fell in love with it! I'm pretty inexperienced and last growing season I lived in town so my garden was the size of a kitchen table.....but some how this year I wound up on a farm with the job of creating a self-sustaining vegetable garden to feed 2 families for a whole year! Who knew?!?! I'm excited but slightly overwhelmed with all the information I'm having to sift through......The zone I'm in makes things complicated as well (3b).
We live on 168 acres but a lot of it is CRP'd which didn't leave a lot of good spots to plan around....Our garden spot is on a south west facing hill which unfortunately used to be a corn field. I know that corn seems to deplete the soil of nutrients so I'm not really sure how to combat that.....We have a lot of wild life around here so I'm going to have to fence in the garden. If I can grow vertically I would like to do that to maximize space. We will have a green house as well. O man, I'm getting overwhelmed just writing this=D Did I mention I home-school, have 3 kids under 6 and will be the only one able to tend to the garden on a regular basis?
Any advice would be much appreciated! I want to keep my love of gardening, not have it become a burden......
