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Feb 20, 2014 5:07 PM CST
Name: Ric Sanders
Dover, Pa. (Zone 6b)
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Hello, a funny thing happens when my wife takes photos, she takes 5 and ends up with 6 after editing. Rolling on the floor laughing
I use fairly intense plantings too, instead of a couple of rows of bush beans, I plant a column of 3 staggered rows about 9"s wide. It grows like a hedge. Next to the bean hedge I plant broccoli, cabbage, and marigolds, with a column of beets. many times I add a few celosia for color. I plant onions freely amoung the cole plants away from the beans. Next to my Asparagus I usually plant herbs like coriander and basil with a row of sunflowers. My sweet potatoes are usually next separating my gladiolus border. I do my radishes and carrots in a raised bed adding turnips after the radishes. I grow my cukes with hyacinth beans on the trellis of the small gazabo. Small rows of lettuce and spinach can be found here and there. I leave old lettuce go to seed for the finches. Last year I built a raised strawberry bed with a soaker hose under the mulch. I move my tomato wall each year, it consist of 2 painted panels of concrete reinforcement wire mounted on 2 fence post with the plants trained up between them. Since my garden soil has been amended with compost and manure for so many years all I have to do is turn it with a fork, cultivating is usually done with a hoe. My potatoes I raise in containers, cut down plastic drums. I am thinking of moving my containers and trying the 3 sisters in that corner.
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