Planning your garden and building raised beds.
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Transylvania County Successful home gardening Series Part 1: planning you home garden
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What to expect from this series:
• Get you know your local Ag agent
• A focus on good healthy food for you and your family, and addressing the “food insecurity” situation in Transylvania County
• Sources for more information
• Become aware of the resources that are available to you locally
• Share and build on your experiences!
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The hunger situation in Transylvania County
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Today
• Why bother with a garden?
• Planning your garden
• Realistic expectations- how much to plant
• Soil tests
• Prepping your garden and sources of soil fertility
• Discussion and questions- Raised beds w/ treated wood? Row covers? Interpreting soil test results?
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Planning your garden
• Make a map and consider the following:
• How annoying is it going to be to garden here?
• Walking distance, water, dogs, neighbors
• How much sunlight will it get (remember, Full sun means at least 6 hours of sun a day.)
• Slope? Soil type? Can you dig there???
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Bart’s garden
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Why raised beds?
• Much better control over soil fertility
• Dry out faster/ better drainage
• Less weed pressure
• Look better?
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Vegetable garden Guide: • Click here for the guide
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Soil Tests
• Click here for info on soil testing
Image: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M
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How to do a soil test
• Rainy day? Watch Mr. Cliff Ruth do the hard work for us
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Soil Fertility
Click here for information on fertilizing your garden to get ready for planting
Click here for more info on converting between chemical and organic fertilizer recommendations.
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Interpreting your soil test results
• Remember that fertilizer recommendations are based on the crop that you submitted