[2Jedismom]

Oh, you're welcome. I guess everyone is just naturally fascinated with rutabagas. . .

;-)

Someday I'll take some pictures of our garden...it's done in the square foot method. We have 8 beds that are about 5x10 feet big each.

[HairOfTheDog]

My mom always gardened... she grew peas and beans and lettuce and berries... She would make freezer jam out of our berries.

For a couple years after she died, the garden sat unplanted, though dad always rototilled it, to keep the grass and weeds from becoming hard turf.

Then I started planting garden, but only a few things to feel like I was producing something when I didn't have a job... I planted the whole thing in corn one year.

I think next year, if the inspiration holds, I shall plant some corn for me and carrots for the ponies!

[SuziQ]

our garden...it's done in the square foot method

I love square foot gardening! We haven't bothered with a garden here in MA, all we'd harvest is rocks anyway, and the growing season is so short! When we were living in NJ, we had a great garden in the back. I grew tomatoes, beans, pumpkins, and various herbs.

We'd eventually like to create a raised square foot garden about 3 feet off the ground so you don't even have to get down on your hands and knees to weed etc. That will have to wait until we move to a more temperate climate!