*SOIL MIXTURE & SCHEDULE FOR PLANTING*

Soil so far we have used is a Chocolate Loam, which is our base soil, it is high in sand as its taked from an old riverbed, but that is good as it helps with water better, we will next add a layer of top soil compost to be tilled in in the upper level of the raised beds. The correct mixture for garden beds is 80%Loam & 20%compost. So, yes, we will be adding more organic heavy compost soil to that bed mixture and ours will be a higher level than 20% to give our beds an extra kick as most of the "good stuff" will be in the top half of the bed, our beds are pretty deep. That ground cover around the beds is a test, and if we dont like it by spring we can put something else over top of it, like grass or crushed rock.

**Does anyone have a good free or cheap source for compost?**

Also---- IT IS COLD OUT, so... I dont know if it is wise to plant this fall season as it feels like winter alredy and Margaret insighfully pointed out that the first frost is like Dec 4th or something. So we may wait untill the spring planting season to really get going. This delay will give our beds time to settle and age a bit while we all plan out perfectly how and what to grow. The spring growing season is by far the best anyway as far as variety of vegitables and fruits.

Pass this info along to the others who should but dont read this blog.

Cheers

Resource for veggies to plant

Hi All,
Here is the resource that my friend from Green Corn Project recommended for choosing what to plant when.
http://www.co.travis.tx.us/agext/garden/veggies/planting/default.asp
Also they have their big fundraiser this Sunday out at Boggy Creek Farms if you guys are interested in attending. It's a really sweet event with lots of restaurants, music, growers etc. Tix are $35 if bought before -www.greencornproject.org.
I'll have lots of time to help out with gardening after getting through this event:). k

_GROW LIST_

Just found this googling around, its a perfect resource for us to decide what and when to plant...

http://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/HomeHort/F4Best/BexarBestindex.htm

Direct links to planting list:

http://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/HomeHort/F4Best/FallVegetableVarietiesRev07-08.pdf

http://bexar-tx.tamu.edu/HomeHort/F4Best/nspringveg.htm

perhaps a trip to the famers markets would help to see what is popular and to sample some of these options.

Anita Gardens are the BEST gardens

Hello everyone!

Glad to see this online collaboration springing up like our garden will over the next few months :) Thanks Margaret.

Ok so Im going to try to get these in the ground ready to add soil this week.

Please think about anything we should consider before these are put into the final position.

Also lets try to start a list of thing we want to grow at our gardens.

Cheers!

We started learning how to do this... thanks to Green Corn Project + Kim, who drove us way out of town to a new neighborhood and we dug up 2 backyards. It was easy... there were a lot of volunteers.



meanwwhile


Vito and Chloe are missing Meredith...