KarenInWichita

Member since: May 08 Organic gardener

Gardens

Back Foundation Tire garden

Zone 6a Instead of filling a true raised bed (and thereby burying the house foundation), I'm putting in tire planters. I experimented a little with it last...
- 1 plants
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Barnyard garden

Zone 6a Our little bungalow's backyard is very retro - as was traditional when this house was built, we treat it as a utility space. The front yard (and th...
- 4 plants
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N Square Foot garden

Zone 6a
- 7 plants
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NE Square Foot garden

Zone 6a The oldest of the square foot beds, it's also in the shadiest spot. I don't know what I was thinking. It has a nice sturdy trellis of hog-fencing b...
- 2 plants
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NW Square Foot garden

Zone 6a A conventional Square Foot Garden, cedar box filled with about eight inches (after I top it off for the year) of Mel's Mix, and with a low wire tre...
- 4 plants
- 13 journals
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SE Square Foot garden

Zone 6a Instead of being pure Mel's Mix like the first three squares, this is a lasagna bed - effectively, my compost pile last summer. I did experiment wi...
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Seed Flat garden

Zone 6a I'm starting a lot of my plants from seed this year.
- 12 plants
- 6 journals
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SW Square Foot garden

Zone 6a When we raised the ducklings, we built a frame of 1x10s with a plastic dropcloth lining it. That went inside a wire dog "crate", and held the beddi...
- 1 plants
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[Archived] Dome garden

Zone 6a The original intention was to use last year's sunflower stalks to make a teepee. Unexpected visitors (in the form of gas line repairmen) tromped on...
- 3 plants
- 2 journals
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[Archived] Ex-Compost garden

Zone 6a After moving the compost bin, I had a nice 2x4' space and some sprouting red potatoes. How could I let that go to waste?
- 1 plants
- 1 journals
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[Archived] Greenhouse Shelf garden

Zone 6a Years ago, I bought one of those cheap "greenhouse shelf" thingies: wire, with a zippered plastic cover. The cover is coming apart at the seams, he...
- 5 plants
- 4 journals
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[Archived] Square Foot garden

Zone 6a Years back, I picked up the Square Foot Gardening book at a used bookstore, and proceeded to get involved with an overambitious (and row-type) comm...
- 30 plants
- 57 journals
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[Archived] Mom's Basket garden

Zone 6a Instead of the usual basket of petunias, I'm starting a basket of ornamental edibles for Mother's Day.
- 5 plants
- 1 journals
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