Community Garden Planting Guide 2010

Bed #1

Main Crops:Pole Beans, Squash, Corn

Bamboo Poles

For Beans
Squash Squash
CORN CORN
CORN CORN
CORN CORN
CORN CORN
Bamboo Poles for Beans

Bed # 2

Main Crops:Tomatoes, Peppers, Eggplant Herb and Flower Companions: Dill, Cosmos, Basil, Marigold

Bed # 3

Main Crop: Strawberries (already planted); lettuce

Companion Herbs: Borage, Love in a Mist

Add lettuce, spinach and flowers to open areas

flowers
Strawberries
Lettuce spinach lettuce
Strawberries
flowers
Bed # 4

Main Crops: Onions, Bush bean, Melons

Companion Flowers: Nasturtium, Zinnia, Tansy

Succession plant beans every 2 weeks

Leave cover crop in until planting time

Spacing: Potato – 1 per square foot

Bean – 9 per square foot

When all beans are done – leaves space for melons

Beans 1 Beans 2 Melons Beans 3 Beans 4

Flowers flowers

Beans 1 Beans 2 Melons Beans 3/ Beans 4

Onions onions

Beans 1 Beans 2 Melons Beans 3 Beans 4

Onions onions

Beans 1 Beans 2 Melons Beans 3 Beans 4

Flowers flowers
Bed # 5

Main Crops: Lettuce, carrot/onions, beets, cucumber

Companions: nasturtiums, chamomile, Mexican sunflower

Lettuce grows in shade of cucumber trellis

Spacing: carrot – 16 per square foot

beet – 16 per square foot

cucumber – 2 per foot along edge

Lettuce carrots carrots lettuce
Flowers flowers

Lettuce onions beets lettuce

Flowers flowers
Cucumbers carrots carrots Cucumber
Bed # 6

Main Crops: Peas, zucchini, kale, spinach/other greens

Companions: alyssum, radish,

Nasturtium

Spacing: Pea - 8 per square foot on trellis

Zucchini – 1 per square foot

Plant spinach in shade of pea poles (sideways trellis)

Spinach will bolt when the weather gets hot – take it out to provide room for zucchini. When zucchini are spent, re-plant spinach which will last through the fall.

Kale stays through the winter.

Peas on trellis
Spinach/greens
Zucchini
Kale
Peas on trellis
Spinach/green
Zucchini
Kale

Pumpkin Patch:

Main Crops: Pumpkins, watermelons

Companions: Radishes (allow to flower) sunflowers, perennial flowers

Heavily composted!

Perennials and sunflowers along outer edge

Sunflowers
pumpkins / Pmpkins / Watermelons / Pernnial flowers

SUPPLIES/WISH LIST:

Seeds – catalogs Plants – Buffalo Urban Roots see if they have heirlooms

Fabric row covers w/ wire hoops

‘hot caps’ for melons and squash (more plastic jugs)

Landscape fabric for pumpkin patch

Poles for bean teepees

Raspberries along fence

2 more beds – permanent asparagus bed, blueberries

Apple/pear/peach trees

Compost bin

Chipper/shredder for compost/garden waste

Scarecrow

Bird bath

Some kind of path in pumpkin patch

Volunteer work:

Collect 1 gallon water jugs - anytime

Donate divided perennial flowers – blackeyed Susan, Purple orYellow Coneflower, Coreopsis, Echinacea, butterfly bush

Bring cow manure from Skiberdeen farm – April

Turn over cover crops – April

Rototill pumpkin patch, put down landscape fabric, make paths – May

Planting – make guide for classrooms

Peas, lettuce can be started in early May

Indoor seedlings no earlier than 6-8 weeks before planting (mid to late March)

*Do classrooms that are doing planting have grow lights?

Dig raspberry patch (June)

Put Rain Barrels up – troubleshoot water pressure (may need new tap) (May)

Pay for & build new beds - ??

Build compost bin - anytime

Flower seeds or plants: Nasturtium, alyssum, wave petunia, calendula, Mexican sunflower, tansy, borage, marigold

Herb Plants: Basil, borage. Parsley