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Mudraker

June 28, 2008

Jennifer Buchanan (click to enlarge)

Raised veggies beds in a city yard.

Plant a vegetable garden this weekend

Posted at 6:00 am by Debra Smith

Everyone I talk to wants to put in a vegetable garden.

By everyone I mean people that don’t have much plant experience and think that killing plants is just part of their nature. That attitude comes from our suburban, get-it-from-the-grocery-store upbringing.

Anybody can grow veggies in their yard. If I can do it, you can do it. Like anything else there’s a learning curve: it takes practice and patience. And it takes some attention. You do have to water those veggies regularly. It doesn’t take much more than that to get started.

Here’s my recipe for the most intimidated gardener. Take a container with drainage holes and fill it with good potting soil. Add a tomato plant purchased from a local nursery. Water it regularly.

You want to go bigger. Choose a sunny spot in the yard. Clear it of weeds and lawn. Get some wood planks from the lumber yard. Build a box with no bottom. Place in your sunny spot and fill with compost or good planting soil mix. Plant bush beans, squash, lettuce, carrots and small herb plants, available at nurseries. Water regularly.

If you want more advanced ideas, check out this story on an Everett couple who grows pounds of food on a city lot.

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