Edit: 12/31/11- It’s time to think about gardening again.
Original Post:
Last January 2009, my calendar told me to plan my garden this weekend. I dug out my handy dandy Clyde’s Vegetable Planting Slide Chart to see when I would really have to plan the garden. I used the average last frost date of this part of the USA that I live in to slide over the planting dates on Clyde’s Vegetable Planting Slide Chart. I saw that I need to plan my garden soon. Onions could be set out mid-February.
Where can you get a handy dandy Clyde’s Vegetable Planting Slide Chart? Why, at the Clyde’s Vegetable Planting Slide Chart website of course at …
http://clydesvegetableplantingchart.com/
Revisiting Clyde’s Vegetable Planting Slide Chart
This post originally published 2009
Donna, you are so good to us to provide this info.
Now I need to go and look up what the average frost date is for us. I know it is much sooner than yours. I still to research green houses so that I can show hubby what I would like to have and then we can plan out how to build such a thing.
Why, Thank you Elaine! 😀 I did not even mention that this Planting Slide Chart is made by a homeschooling family of 8. 🙂
Yes, you need to research the greenhouse. I`ve always wanted one and when you get one, I can do that thing that people say they do — “Live vicariously through you”
I do not think we are going to have a garden this year. Hubby was not happy that we spent a lot on the garden and did not get much out of it.
Donna, I have been learning, through the experience of others up here, that if you want to have a successful garden you either need lots of space (do not have) or a green house (more likely to get). Since I really want to grow tomatoes I should have a green house for them that will provide the heat that they need to do well, especially if we have a similar summer in 09 as we did in 08.
Elaine have you been to the Alaska Cooperative Extension website? They have some publications that might be helpful. Below is a direct link to the home gardening section.
http://www.uaf.edu/ces/publications/anrpubs.html#hga
Gardens are time consuming too. It takes a bit of both hard work and money to get them established.
I hope to plant a spring and summer garden this year. I think I must be nuts over gardening because I do all of the work, even all of the putting away. I have help eating it though. 😛 That is okay though.
sigh I give up on gardening. Not enough sun.
@Applie